A fourth grade student in the Sartell-St. Stephen school district in Minnesota informed the school board students were required to complete an “equity survey,” and told not to “repeat any of the questions to our parents.”
“My teacher said that I could not skip any questions even when I didn’t understand them,” Haylee Yasgar, who attended Riverview Intermediate School, said at a recent school board meeting, reported Alphanews Minnesota.
“One question asked us what gender we identify with,” Haylee added. “I was very confused along with a lot of other classmates.”
Haylee said students were also told they were not permitted to “repeat any of the questions to our parents.”
“Being asked to hide this from my mom made me very uncomfortable, like I was doing something wrong,” Haylee told the school board.
Parents in the district are concerned about the push to teach concepts associated with Critical Race Theory (CRT), a Marxist ideology.
According to Alphanews, the school district hired Equity Alliance MN (EAM), a left-wing activist group, to conduct an $80,000 audit on “racial inequities” within the district.
EAM describes itself on its website as a group that has been “leading culturally relevant learning since 1995.”
EAM describes itself on its website as a group that has been “leading culturally relevant learning since 1995.”
“Equity Alliance MN is working to make the educational ecosystem across Minnesota equitable for every single student,” the group states, adding its mission is to be...