Massachusetts School District Encourages Students to Report Peers, Teachers for ‘Bias Incidents’

Massachusetts School District Encourages Students to Report Peers, Teachers for ‘Bias Incidents’
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Bill Pan
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A public school district in Massachusetts is encouraging its students and staff to report on one another for “incidents of bias,” according to newly uncovered documents.

The documents include Wellesley Public Schools’ (WPS) guidelines (pdf) on how to handle complaints of bias among students and staff, and slides from a mandatory “equity protocols” training course. They were obtained and released by Parents Defending Education (PDE), which describes itself as a grassroots organization working to reclaim schools from “activists promoting harmful agendas.”