Taking Woke Education to Court | RealClearEducation
Located in the leafy suburbs of Washington, D.C., Loudon is now ground zero in the fight against policing speech in public schools.
For the past two years, the district has pursued a controversial new curricular approach focused on equity and race consciousness. But parents are now suing to stop a new program they believe crosses constitutional lines.
The so-called Equity Ambassadors Program allows students as young as sixth grade to report on their fellow students if they perceive a student s speech to be offensive or racist.
Initially open only to students who could check the right racial boxes, the program s purported goal is to amplify the student voice. But one school leader was honest enough to admit its real purpose: to identify microaggressions among students even those arising outside of school or on social media.