Teachers were told to disrupt dominant white culture and not to let parents stand in the way of social equity. Nowadays the trend of state schools attempting to steer easily influenced children towards leftist principles is no longer a novelty.

The Wake County Public School System, which serves the greater Raleigh, North Carolina area, has launched an active campaigning against „whiteness” in educational spaces, after it held a teachers conference last year with lessons focusing on whiteness, toxic masculinity, microaggressions and applied critical race theory.

The story was picked up by Christopher F. Rufo, who posted his message on social media. The conservative journalist has given a detailed account on numerous occasions of how US public schools try to indoctrinate and influence children with leftist-liberal ideologies.

It turns out that the alleged conference began with a „land acknowledgement,” a ritual recognition suggesting that white North Carolinians are colonisers on stolen Native American land, and that it s something all teachers must accept. The conference leaders also encouraged educators to form „equity teams” in schools and push the new party line: antiracism.

According to Rufo s entry, school administrators claimed that white cultural values include denial, fear, blame, control, punishment, scarcity, and one-dimensional thinking. They told white teachers that they must challenge the dominant ideology of „whiteness” and disrupt white culture.

According to the Wake County Public School System, parents are an obstacle to social equity, and white parents  children are benefiting from the current system while failing to learn about diversity at home. Responding to the question of what teachers should do if a parent begins to criticise this new type of education, the school director simply said: teachers „can t let parents deter them from their work.”

Thus, it appears that leftist ideologies are intensively gaining ground in American schools. The case of a New Jersey teacher who was forced to digitally edit out a Donald Trump logo on a student s shirt in a yearbook photo is a good example to illustrative the trend. A Trump quote and words on another T-shirt also had to go. 

The teacher, Susan Parsons, said that a secretary acting on behalf of the high school s principal approached her in 2017 and told her to remove anything referring to the Republican president. Ms Parsons complied and edited the yearbook.

However, when the story came to light, students angry with the decision have questioned the school administration, sparking a scandal. The school scapegoated the teacher and suspended her from work. The statement issued by the institution at the time made no admission of wrongdoing and rebuked the teacher for censorship.

Two years ago, Susan Parsons received 25 thousand  dollars in settlement in a lawsuit challenging the school district s policy that allegedly prevented her from talking to the media about her perspective on what happened. Four years after the incident, the New Jersey school district is obliged to pay 325 thousand dollars to the former teacher.