Wisconsin Education Officials Want Students to Wear âWhite Privilegeâ Wristbands
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction runs several programs that heavily emphasize racial issues in public schools, EAGnews.org has been finding.
Some feel that one of those programs â an Americorps operation called VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) â may go a bit overboard by encouraging white students to wear a white wristband "as a reminder about your (white) privilege.â
Geared towards high school students, the program âseeks to build capacity in schools and districts serving low-income families to develop an effective, sustainable, research-based program of family-school-community partnerships,â according to its Facebook page.
That sounds reasonable enough.
But the programâs approach becomes a bit suspect when one reads the Gloria Steinem quote on the top of its webpage: âThe first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.â
The webpage also offers a series of suggestions for high schools students to become more racially sensitive. They include:
· Wear a white wristband as a reminder about your privilege, and as a personal commitment to explain why you wear the wristband.
· Set aside sections of the day to critically examine how privilege is working.
· Put a note on your mirror or computer screen as a reminder to think about privilege.
The Wisconsin DPI also sponsors several similar programs, including CREATE Wisconsin, an on-going âcultural sensitivityâ teacher training program which focuses largely on âwhitenessâ and âwhite privilege.â
EAGnews will be exposing more about that program in a film documentary titled, âRE-CREATING AMERICA: Cultural Sensitivity in Wisconsin Schools,â along with a two-day written series on the same topic, beginning Wednesday.
Will DPIâs obsession with race and âwhite privilegeâ actually translate into better educational outcomes for all students? Not likely.
But it will continue to divide the state by race and income status, and allow bureaucrats to make a case for more government funding so they can create a different type of America.
Wisconsin taxpayers really ought to be paying more attention to how their education dollars are spent.
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Federal gubbermint teaching racism in public schools.
Consistent with the holder injustice administration refusing to bring civil rights violations when perpetrators are black.
