School replaces MLK Day holiday with seminars on racial identity, privilege, Islamophobia

School replaces MLK Day holiday with seminars on racial identity, privilege, Islamophobia - The College Fix:
New Trier High School, one of the nation’s top public schools located in Chicago’s posh North Sore, will not have the day off on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day unlike other schools in its district.
That’s because New Trier’s entire day will be devoted to “develop[ing] a deeper understanding of their own racial identities and the identities of others, and to better understand how we can all work to counter the impact of systemic racism in our lives,” according to the school’s website.
Students at the school’s two campuses will get to choose from numerous seminars which, according to Breitbart.com, are “provocative and highly political.”
Some of the workshops include:
— The Truth about Ferguson: The Investigation into the Death of Michael Brown
— Why Do I Have to Feel Guilty for Being White?
— Unconscious Perceptions of Race
— Disney and the Creation of Racial Identity
— Representations of the Middle East: Stereotypes and Islamophobia
— What is Your Privilege?
— Yer’ A White Wizard, Harry: Whitewashing in Cinema
Another seminar called “Western Bias in Science” asks “Were all of the great discoveries in science made by Greeks and Europeans?” and then has participants “[e]xplore the impact of our western bias in the history of science in this discussion session...”
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