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The culture wars being waged in the American education system are far from behind us.

A school district in the San Francisco Bay area held a celebration for employees earlier this month as a way to ring in the new semester and white employees were barred from attending.

Fox News reports that the Acalanes Union High School District's director of Student Support Equity and Inclusion, Dr. Lynna McPhatter-Harris, sent an email saying, "Be reminded that we have avoided inviting people that are not of color as there remain feelings of uneasiness and mistrust and we need this to be a safe space for our people of color."

"Any sort of affinity group or separating people by race, whether it’s students or teachers, that is segregation. It’s racism. It’s wrong and it’s unconstitutional," said Alex Nester, an investigative fellow with Parents Defending Education.

Although the firey headlines of pandemic-era school board fights have largely left the headlines, education systems across the country still struggling with how to teach race to students.

Many Republican states have banned teaching the controversial Critical Race Theory in classrooms. Some teachers openly admit they have defied state rules, as revealed by a hidden camera investigation in Texas by the group Accuracy in Media.

"You’re going to still have some teachers who want to flout these laws because they think that they’re the experts. They think they know better than parents what kids should learn in the classroom," Nester said.

In Florida, a teacher openly ridiculed the state’s decision to have books containing pornography, CRT and gender identity removed from schools by having his students participate in Tik Tok videos mocking the rules. In another video, the same teacher had all the white students act like servants to the Black students.

Proponents of race-based teaching, like the Chicago Teachers Union, argue they are teaching students the truth about racism in America, a lesson they see as necessary for this generation to right historical wrongs.


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