Teachers in California’s Santa Clara county were reportedly instructed last year to hide from students’ parents their “ethnic studies” teaching materials, which describe the United States as a settler colonialist regime responsible for genocide and white supremacy.
In November 2020, Santa Clara County’s Office of Education held a training for teachers to get a hold of the district’s “Ethnic Studies Initiative.” According to slides obtained and posted to Twitter by City Journal reporter Christopher Rufo, the training session began with a “land acknowledgment” claiming that the county and its public schools are all built on land illegitimately taken away from Native American occupants.
