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The Post also said the department's $23 million, mandatory anti-bias training has "irked some administrators, teachers and parents who contend parts are ugly and divisive" — including four white female DOE executives demoted under Carranza's new regime who intend to sue the city for racial discrimination, claiming whiteness has become "toxic."
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At a monthly superintendents meeting in the spring of 2018, shortly after Carranza's arrival, members were asked to share answers to the question: "What lived experience inspires you as a leader to fight for equity?"
One Jewish superintendent shared stories about her grandmother Malka who told of bombs falling in Lodz, Poland, and running from the Nazis in the wee hours by packing up her four children and hiding in the forest, and her grandfather Naftali, who spent nearly six years in a labor and concentration camp, where he witnessed the brutal execution of his mother and sister.
"My grandparents taught me to understand the dangers of 'targeted racism' or the exclusion of any group, and the importance of equity for all people. This is my core value as an educator," the superintendent told colleagues, according to the paper. "At the break, I stood up and, to my surprise, I was verbally attacked by a black superintendent in front of my colleagues. She said, 'This is not about being Jewish! It's about black and brown boys of color only. You better check yourself.'"
The Jewish superintendent also told the Post that "I was traumatized. It was like 1939 all over again. I couldn't believe this could happen to me in NYC!"
Two other superintendents — one black and one Dominican — defended the Holocaust comments as valid and vouched for their colleague as one who fights to level the playing field for all students, the paper said.
And a Manhattan middle-school teacher with her own children in public schools called the the DOE training "a catalyst for hate and division" and recoiled at training phrases like "replacement thinking" and the disdain for "whiteness," the Post reported.
"My ancestors were enslaved and murdered because of their religion, I am now being forced to become 'liberated' from my whiteness," the teacher told the paper. "I am being persecuted because of the circumstances of my birth. I was not aware that I needed to be liberated from how God created me."
The teacher added to the paper that despite the chancellor's insistence that those who complain about the training need it the most, "I will never be brainwashed by Richard Carranza and his minions. I cannot support a schools chancellor who is implicitly biased against me and my children."
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