California school instructs third graders to rank themselves according to ‘power and privilege’

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R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School in San Jose, California reportedly held a lesson on “social identities” during a math class.

Third grade is a year of great academic growth, when students are challenged to accomplish a wide variety of skills from advanced multiplication and division, to reading chapter books and non-fiction, to learning cursive and more.

A public elementary school in California is taking a different route, teaching their third-grade students how to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities in order to understand “power and privilege,” according to the Daily Caller.

R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School in San Jose, California reportedly held a lesson on “social identities” during a math class, during which the teacher required students to list their race, class, gender, religion and family structure in an “identity map,” Discovery Institute scholar Christopher Rufo reported.

The teacher began the lesson by telling the eight and nine year old students that they live in a “dominant culture,” of “white, middle class, cisgender, educated, able bodied, Christian individuals” who “created and maintained” this culture to “hold power and stay in power.”

While most teachers read their third graders books like Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, this teacher read to the students from This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell, teaching them the theory of “intersectionality.”

The book claims that “those with privilege have power over others” and that “folx who do not benefit from their social identities…have little to no privilege and power.”

Students were then instructed to create an “identity map,” listing their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, gender and age.

Imagine asking a third grader to identify their socioeconomic status.

Just wait, it gets worse.

Students then had to circle the identities “that hold power and privilege.” White, middle class, cisgender male, and Christian were reportedly among the characteristics listed as having power and privilege.

Once parents learned of the lesson, many were angered. A group of six families reportedly met with the school’s principal to demand these types of lessons be terminated, to which the administration agreed.

“They were basically teaching racism to my eight-year-old,” one parent said to Rufo.

Jenn Lashier, the principal of Meyerholz Elementary, told Rufo that the lesson was not part of the “formal curricula, but the process of daily learning facilitated by a certified teacher.”

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