By Brett Simpson, San Francisco Chronicle, June 18, 2020
On Wednesday afternoon, over 300 California educators, parents, and students tuned into Facebook Live to hear high school students speak honestly about their own experiences of racism, implicit bias, and trauma at school.
The “Student Support Circle: Institutional Racism and Implicit Bias,” was co-hosted by the California Department of Education and the National Equity Project, and is the first among several initiatives state Superintendent Tony Thurmond announced Wednesday to bring the nationwide conversation about racism and bias into the classroom.
“We have been seeing some of the most traumatic and grave and graphic events of brutality and racism and bias in our communities,” Thurmond said. “These have a deep impact on all of us, but especially on our young people. We want to make sure we’re providing support to them.”
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