SCOOP: The Arizona Department of Education has created an "equity" toolkit claiming that babies show the first signs of racism at three months old and that white children "remain strongly biased in favor of whiteness" by age five.
Let's review the resources in the toolkit. 🧵
Let's review the resources in the toolkit. 🧵
The Department of Education recommends a reading that claims babies are not "colorblind" and that parents must instill "antiracist attitudes and actions" beginning at birth, in order for their children to not "absorb bias from the world around them."
Another recommended reading claims that "all white people are white in the context of a society that continues to disadvantage people of color based on race." The document teaches schools how to "change what it means to be white" and inculcate an "antiracist white identity."
The Department provides additional resources for "families & community," telling white parents that they "can have a black friend, partner, or child and still be racist." The article claims that white people deny their own racism to "alleviate some of their white fragility."
Finally, the department shares a series of resources for teachers about "systemic racism" and "intersectionality," then explains how to conduct an "equity audit" and implement "racial equity plan" in schools using the principles of "antiracism."
I call on Governor @dougducey to conduct an investigation into the Department of Education's radical "equity and diversity" program. It's deeply ideological, anti-scientific, and morally bunk. Arizona students deserve better.
P.S. My children are "people of color" and they get along fantastically with children of all racial groups. Perpetuating the idea that "babies are racist" is astonishingly stupid and should be immediately removed from the Arizona Department of Education's equity toolkit.
P.P.S. Read through the Arizona Department of Education's entire "equity" toolkit here: azed.gov/improvement/eq…
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