Washington Governor Jay Inslee (D) holds “equity” summit including state education agency claiming concepts like “objectivity” and “individualism” are forms of “White supremacy culture” and should be rejected in favor of “indigenous relational pedagogy.”
From Fox News:
During Inslee’s "2022 Governor’s Equity Summit" in Tacoma on Nov. 30, the interim executive director of the state’s Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB), which consists of 12 governor-appointed members dedicated to advancing "educational justice," gave a PowerPoint presentation titled "Internal Transformation: How an Education Agency is Transforming Itself in the Name of Justice." PESB’s presentation began with a "land acknowledgment" recognizing "the original inhabitants of the spaces we occupy," and it asked Zoom viewers and in-person attendees to "please take a few seconds to acknowledge the land that you are on as the traditional homeland of the Indigenous Peoples." The land acknowledgment was followed by a "moment of silence" to consider how "this country has elevated a story of democracy and freedom while minimizing the impact of violence and oppression on marginalized communities, communities on whose backs this nation was built." The presentation then outlined some of the "cultural shifts" that PESB believes are "needed" in Washington state’s education department and other state agencies. "What does it look like when we move away from white supremacy culture toward indigenous relational pedagogy? What can you do tomorrow?" one of the slides asked.
