California’s Alameda Unified School District is requiring high school freshmen to assess their “privilege,” according to documents obtained by The Daily Wire.
The district’s ethnic studies curriculum asks students to consider their privilege according to Critical Race Theory (CRT).
Students were given handouts describing how a student can assess “whether [they] are privileged or oppressed.” The document, called “My Relationship with Privilege and Oppression,” lists 29 identities based on race, ethnicity, sex, religion, and other descriptors that are used to determine a student’s level of privilege.
“Considering all your social identities listed in the table above, on a daily basis, which ones are you most aware or conscious of?” the handout asks.
The course’s syllabus includes a section titled “resistance and liberation,” wherein students are taught the “history of resisting oppression as carried out by the oppressed groups themselves.”
Another assignment asks students to go on a “privilege walk.” According to The Daily Wire, the assignment tells students to “describe the emotions and thoughts you experienced during the privilege walk. How has it challenged or confirmed your perceptions of privilege and inequality?”
Students across the United States from all education levels have been taught ideas rooted in CRT.
Earlier this year, a teacher in Seattle reportedly told his students that being “straight” is offensive.
When the student identified himself as “straight,” the teacher said that “straight” carries a poor connotation suggesting that those who are LGBTQ may be deemed “crooked.”
Students attending Davidson College in North Carolina were required to watch a video claiming all white people are inherently racist.
Last year, a report from Fox News detailed a program from Ohio State University that required students in a health sciences program to take part in discussions addressing white and straight “privilege.”
