Santa Barbara Parents Ask Courts to Roll Back ‘Implicit Bias’ Curricula

Santa Barbara Parents Ask Courts to Roll Back ‘Implicit Bias’ Curricula
Santa Barbara High School in Santa Barbara, Calif., in this file photo. Fettlemap/CC BY-SA 3.0
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
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Concerned parents in Santa Barbara, California, are moving forward with a lawsuit in state court against a nonprofit and the local school board over taxpayer-funded “implicit bias” instruction, after a legal hiccup forced their watchdog group to change judicial forums.

According to the parents and other critics, the “implicit bias” training program operating in Santa Barbara, which bears a resemblance to programs active in school districts and colleges across the nation, is pseudoscientific and falsely portrays the United States as a cruel, oppressive, and racist country.