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CA Poised To Force High Schools To Offer Curriculum Including The ‘Four I’s Of Oppression’

"It suggests teachers provide 'examples of systems of power, which can include economic systems like capitalism and social systems like patriarchy.'”

Hank Berrien
CA Poised To Force High Schools To Offer Curriculum Including The ‘Four I’s Of Oppression’
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A bill before the California senate needing a signature from Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom would force all school districts to offer their high school students a semester-long ethnic studies class starting in 2025, likely with a model curriculum that currently states the course should “build new possibilities for post-imperial life that promotes collective narratives of transformative resistance” as well as teach the students the “four I’s of oppression.”

The model curriculum that would likely be implemented from bill AB 331 includes statements like these:

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