
Kali Fontanilla discovered that not only was CRT being taught—her minority students were failing it.
Kali Fontanilla—a high school English language teacher working in the Salinas, California, school district—noticed that many of her students were failing one of their classes: ethnic studies. Instruction was entirely online.
Still, Fontanilla thought it was odd to see so many Fs.
All of Fontanilla's students were Hispanic. Proponents who propose adding ethnic studies to various curricula—and made it mandatory, as the Salinas school district did—typically intend CRT for "privileged white students".
There's a certain irony in requiring members of an ethnic minority to study this, and an even greater irony in the fact that such students were struggling intensely with the course.
"My students are failing ethnic studies," says Fontanilla, who is of Jamaican ancestry. "I would say half of them are failing this ethnic studies class."
This made Fontanilla curious about what the course was teaching. All of the high school's teachers used the same online platform to post lesson plans and course materials, so Fontanilla decided to take a look.
She was shocked by what she saw.
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