Last year, the Wake County Public School System, which serves the greater Raleigh, North Carolina area, held an equity-themed teachers' conference with sessions on "Whiteness," "Microaggressions," "Racial mapping," and "Disrupting texts," encouraging educators to form "Equity teams" in schools and push the new party line: "Antiracism."
Next, the superintendent of Wake County Public Schools, Cathy Moore, introduced the day's program and shuffled teachers to breakout sessions across eight rooms.
The equity program in the Wake County Public School System is a massive enterprise.
Founded in 2013, the district's Office of Equity Affairs has now amassed a $1 million annual budget and hosts an ongoing sequence of school trainings, curriculum-development sessions, and teacher events.
In 2019, for example, the office hosted a series of "Courageous conversations" about race and a five-night discussion program about the podcast Seeing White, which asks listeners to consider how "Whiteness" contributes to "Police shootings of unarmed African Americans," "Acts of domestic terrorism," and "Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring."
According to Wake County Public Schools, the purpose of these programs is to achieve "Equity," which it defines as "Eliminating the predictability of success and failure that correlates with any social or cultural factor." This is naïve, at best.
Sadly, rather than seizing this opportunity, teachers in Wake County are busy planning conference presentations on "Toxic masculinity," "Microaggressions," "Trauma-informed yoga," "Peace circles," and "Applied critical race theory." North Carolina might be a red state, but in its largest county, the school system has fully bought in to the latest progressive dogmas.
https://www.city-journal.org/critical-race-theory-in-wake-county-nc-schools
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