San Francisco Unified School District Workshop Labels Teachers as ‘Oppressors’

San Francisco Unified School District Workshop Labels Teachers as ‘Oppressors’

This is the basis of the left’s entire worldview. Everyone is an oppressor or an oppressed.

The Voice of San Francisco reports:

SFUSD adultism workshop labels educators as ‘oppressors’

The gradual public disclosure of San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) “Liberated Ethnic Studies” materials continues to uncover deeply controversial teachings. Among the latest is an Adultism Workshop sponsored by SFUSD on,April 26, 2025, at John O’Connell High School in the South of Market district. Titled “Youth as Knowledge Producers: Challenging Adult Supremacy Through Ethnic Studies,” the workshop featured both morning and afternoon sessions as part of a full-day event.

According to the Friends of Lowell Foundation, the nonprofit organization that launched legal strikes against SFUSD, the training framed the fundamental relationship between teachers and students as inherently oppressive. Educators were positioned as “oppressors” and students as the “oppressed,” consistent with core tenets of liberated ethnic studies ideology. Participants were further instructed that academic rigor is a Eurocentric and harmful imposition, and that teachers have a duty to resist administrative mandates that emphasize it.

A screenshot captured by an attendee summarized the presentation: “Due to systemic power dynamics, the relationship between students and educators is inherently an oppressive one,” with the educator cast as oppressor and the student as oppressed.

The workshop flyer below asserted that Ethnic Studies is “under assault” in today’s classrooms and that public education remains “crafted around Eurocentric notions of success” deemed “dehumanizing” and in need of active resistance. The instructor was identified as Jennifer Sanchez, a third-year Ethnic Studies educator from California’s Central Valley, holding degrees in Chicana/o Studies and History from UCLA. That institution’s César E. Chávez Department of Central American Studies serves as an incubator for the Liberated Ethnic Studies movement.

These revelations surfaced nearly a year after the SFUSD Board of Education voted to adopt the “Voices: An Ethnic Studies Survey” curriculum, without board members or the public having full access to its contents, in apparent violation of standard curriculum review protocols and state law. Requests for transparency from educators and parents were reportedly ignored or denied.

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