EAGnews.org is the website of Education Action Group Foundation, Inc., a non-partisan non-profit national organization headquartered in Michigan, dedicated to the promotion of sensible education reform and exposing those with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
A week ago, EAGnews sounded an alert on the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s Americorps VISTA “racial sensitivity” training program in the state’s high schools which includes encouraging white students to wear a white wristband “as a reminder about your (white) privilege.”
EAGnews’ publisher and founder Kyle Olson wrote about this on Townhall.com, which was picked up and disseminated by America’s volunteer army of citizen bloggers.
Now comes the happy news that the idiots at Wisconsin’s Dept of Public Instruction (DPI) have backed off.
RightWisconsin.com reports DPI has removed the training materials and, unsurprisingly, blamed the unnamed EAG for exposing it.
Via RightWisconsin.com (subscription required):
On Monday, the Education Action Group exposed the existence of ‘white privilege’ training materials on the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) website. As of Friday afternoon, those materials have been removed from the DPI website and replaced with a message that attacks “misconceptions and misinformation being spread by an out-of-state entity. …
The new statement goes on to explain the relationship between the DPI and the VISTA program, emphasizing “there is no wristband program in Wisconsin.”
This all may be true, but the Department of Public Instruction still fails to explain why the materials were on their website in the first place? If the DPI expects Wisconsin taxpayers to buy their spin that the ‘white privilege’ training material was never used in Wisconsin classrooms they must come clean as to how and why the extensive list of material on ‘power and privilege’ came to be posted on the DPI website.
The fact of the matter is DPI wouldn’t have removed the materials if taxpayers weren’t sufficiently outraged. The Department saw it as a liability, but rest assured, the radicals won’t change their ways. They’ll just be more careful about what they put into the public sphere.
H/t FOTM’s Christy!
~Eowyn
