Utah fourth grade teacher has been wondering if her new school will take her colourful classrom. A recent social media posting indicated that William Penn Elementary school is predominantly white, but her room was designed for non-whites.
Here’s how she put it in a video:
“So for the first time in my life, I’m going to be teaching at a majority-white school. And I’m kind of interested to see how students and parents react to my classroom — or if they even notice anything about it. Because it’s built for nonwhite students.”
Why would anyone “build” a classroom for every race but one? Perhaps institutions have taught them it’s virtuous.
Not long ago, it would’ve signaled something else; but in a very short time, all things have been made new.
The teacher went on to explain she’s into “multicultural education.” Hence, no whites will be represented:
“[I]f you look around and you interact with some of the materials I have, you’ll notice that there’s, like, no white kids represented in that. Let’s just move on to the next level in multicultural education. And I don’t think, like, my new students will mind. But, you know, not a single white face there.”
In 4th grade, did you use coloring books? Today’s kids have:
“Same with my coloring pages. My students have access to a large stack of color pages. None of them contain a character or a person. ‘Cause I just kept looking for…pages for them that they’d…relate to.”
The teacher also prefers POCs — Princesses Of Color:
“And then the only Disney princesses I have are Mulan and Moana, because they’re some of my favorites. And coincidentally, they are not white.”
As for “diversity,” contemporarily, the term rarely references anything related to thought. Perspectives are more important than skin shades. And whereas someone’s eating proclivities don’t define their status, the opposite is true of their sexual interests or sex-related self-conceit:
“Then another thing is my classroom library. Literature is dominated almost entirely by white straight men. I have a lot of those books. But it is overpowered now from all the books that I’ve been purchasing to add on to my library that depict a lot of diverse peoples — whether that’s people of color or, I have, like, books on nonbinary, trans, otherwise LGBTQ characters.”
Are all “posh, white parents” the same? She’s interested to find out:
“So there’s just not a lot of adherence to the status-quo on just that, like, base-level of my classroom. So I’m kind of wondering if, I feel like some parents might have something to say about that — if my experience with posh, white parents in the past holds true for this year. We’ll see.”
Online response hasn’t been purely positive. Fox News reports that the head of school made a statement on Sunday night.
The principal…issued a statement late Sunday night, saying it was her “personal commitment…to ensure every student feels safe and welcome,” and it is “inappropriate for any employee to make students feel unwelcome in any way, shape or form.”
Additionally, the principal noted that the teacher deleted the post from social media and apologized. The district is now investigating to determine if any policies were violated.
You can view the video here.
This fourth grade teacher @WilliamPennEl explains that her classroom “is built for non-white students.” pic.twitter.com/jttAA1VWqy
— 👁 Inside The Classroom (@EITC_Official) August 20, 2022
The educator appears to overwhelmingly view the world through an identity-group lens — not unlike, increasingly, the entire culture. She clearly sees her classroom, like so many TikToking teachers.
Granite School District might not be feeling the same. Fox News Digital spoke with a spokesperson for the investigation.
“It would be in violation of our district policies to teach anything other than the approved curriculum and standards or to discriminate against any student. We will take corrective actions as soon as the investigation is completed. We know that it is our role as educators to support parents and the families we serve, and we value our parents and their engagement in our schools and classrooms.”
Eighty-five percent of William Penn Elementary’s 560 students are white.
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