Tag: The Color Line

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CRT and the Law: What Parents Should Know

This video highlights Schoolhouse Rights’ CRT Checklist, and details what parents should look for when considering possible legal action in their schools. It also analyzes lectures from Penn State Professor Sam Richards – as well as “The Privilege Walk” exercise and “The Color Line” exercise – which can serve as case studies and examples of possible civil rights violations.

A Parent’s Guide to Critical Race Theory: Fighting CRT in Your Child’s School offers other guiding questions parents can ask if they feel their child’s rights have been violated. Thanks for watching.

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White Teacher Shaming: Inside ‘The Color Line’ Exercise

“The Color Line” exercise, a teacher training activity developed by Glenn Singleton’s Pacific Educational Group and Courageous Conversations, aims to help white educators identify their so-called “white privilege,” so they can understand how this privilege is perpetuating white supremacy culture in K-12 schools as well as the rest of America.  University of Alabama History Professor David Beito described the activity as a Maoist-style scheme that “publicly humiliate[s] dissenters by having them wear signs around their necks expressing shame for their ‘incorrect thoughts.’”  This video takes a close look at the actual exercise, including the procedures, objectives, and actual survey questions given to teachers.