Public School Lesson: White People Are Blood-Sucking Mosquitos
Earlier this week, juniors at West Springfield High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, got more than they bargained for in their advisory classes. Treated as a study hall in the past, advisory is increasingly used to disseminate messages from the school’s equity team for the sake of “social emotional learning”. This time, equity leadership pontificated that students were either perpetrators or victims of microaggressions based on their race. Spoiler alert, the perpetrators in the lesson’s accompanying video are white.
Meanwhile, in almost all of the cases (aside from gender/sexual identity scene), the victims are people of color. The presenters explain to the students that only members of “historically marginalized groups” can be victims of microaggressions.
Students of all races returned home troubled after school that day and shared their concerns about the video and its message with their parents. The legality of the lesson is especially puzzling in light of Governor Youngkin’s Executive Order 1 – banning divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory (CRT), in Virginia’ K-12 public education. Regardless of one’s opinions on social dynamics, who would think such a blatantly divisive lesson is acceptable to present to students in K-12 public schools?
In the Fairfax County Public School District, Student Equity Ambassador Leaders (SEALS) work together with each school’s “equity lead” staff member and the five regions’ “equity specialists”, guided of course by the $455,000 equity-focused strategic planning consultant to create and mass proliferate variations of these lessons across the county to all 178,000 students. That’s our tax dollars (in this districts $3.4 billion annual budget) hard at work.
Many proponents of CRT gaslight us, suggesting that it’s not happening in schools. But really, they’re simply trying to mute our objections to the systematic political indoctrination of our nation’s children.
How is your school district incorporating CRT into the curriculum?
