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thepassionatereader's avatar

I live in a school district that began doing a version of this two decades ago. We brought in Glenn Singleton of the Pacific Educational Group to do equity training in our schools. All teachers, administrators, and parent leaders were required to do it. It became the foundation of how we approached education. Many students had to do the Privilege Walk (https://www.eiu.edu/eiu1111/Privilege%20Walk%20Exercise-%20Transfer%20Leadership%20Institute-%20Week%204.pdf). This is in a school district that had marked disparities between the test scores between our Black and Hispanic students compared to our White and Asian/South Asian.

It didn't budge the scores. In 2020, our district had the second largest achievement gap in the county.

This approach to eradicating racism in our schools and our nation simply doesn't work and it energizes conservatives. Until the US takes education reform as a whole seriously and make this nation a vastly easier place for poor and middle class families to raise healthy, safe children, efforts like this will undercut the very goals they have.

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Arena's avatar

Democrats have been racists since Calhoun and Jackson founded the party, since Jim Crow, since Wilson's eugenics and resegregation, since Little Rock, since Obama spawned BLM grift with Trayvon and Michael brown lies. The government unions and education inc are tied at the hip with the Democrats. Why would people think they would be anything but racists ?

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