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Social Justice Tag

As part of my investigation into the National Association of Independent Schools' (NAIS) People of Color Conference (PoCC), I watched "Growing Young Voices: Understanding Black Lives Matter for Teachers," a presentation where two elementary school teachers at the $35,000/yr University of Chicago Lab School detail their implementation of the "Black Lives Matter at School" curriculum.

Philadelphia School District has changed its admissions policy in the name of diversity and equity. They lowered standards, did away with a standardized test, and discounted the importance of good grades. They say this is for equity, but many students who worked hard, studied and got better grades are being left in the cold. Many parents are understandably upset.

Public schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, have students doing a classroom exercise involving the game of Bingo with a "privilege" card. The concept of privilege comes directly out of the Critical Race Theory playbook, but remember, Critical Race Theory definitely isn't being taught in public schools.

Professor Jordan Peterson has been a controversial figure in higher education for years now, for simply refusing to play by the rules of the academic left. Now he has resigned from his tenured professor position at the University of Toronto. He blamed his decision on the 'diversity, inclusion, and equity' policies that have ripped through higher education like wildfire.