Tony Byrd, Colorado schools superintendent, blasts 'privileged White people' during training session

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A Colorado schools superintendent has had enough of certain White people.

of the Summit School District in Frisco, complained at a January professional development session about the “privileged White people” who sit on the local School Accountability Committee and District Accountability Committee.

The student body of the school district, nestled in Colorado ski country near the Arapahoe Basin, Loveland and Breckenridge resorts, is 56% White, 39% Hispanic and less than 1% Black, Asian, or American Indian, Leading the racially focused session was education consultant Jesse Tijerina, who stressed the importance of “educational stakeholders” moving from “woke to work.”

“If you’ve experienced that which we all have in the last 10 years, we all know that color, identity, sexuality, socio-economics, all those things play a role in how we educate kids,” Mr. Tijerina said. “We can no longer say that it doesn’t exist, that it doesn’t matter, so we are all emerging from blindness.”

 

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