The Arizona Department of Education is providing teachers and parents with an “equity and diversity toolkit” that aims to show how racism can manifest in children as young as three months old, and that white children “remain strongly biased in favor of whiteness” by the age of five.
According to the department’s website, the toolkit was created as part of an effort to promote “equity, diversity and inclusion” in the wake of current events that “highlight persistent racial biases” in society. It includes an infographic suggesting that young children “notice and think about race” and that parents must take action before their kids absorb racial biases through interactions with the world.
