A California English teacher recently posted several controversial videos on social media claiming that teaching children "how to write properly" is rooted in white supremacy and vowed to begin the school year with a different approach to teaching linguistics, Fox News Digital reported.
Marta Shaffer, an English teacher at Oroville High School in northern California, posted videos to TikTok claiming that white supremacy culture "runs deep" in public schools.
"What do I mean by that?" Shaffer stated. "Well, let's look at how we write essays: Start with an introduction that includes a thesis; always cite your sources; use transition words like 'however' and 'therefore.' They are all made-up rules. They're arbitrary. They were created by Westerners in power."
According to Shaffer, the IQ bell curve and the SAT are also problematic and "racist."
"The writers of these tests were made up almost entirely of white people … and they still are," she said.
In Shaffer's social media bio, which she recently deleted, she described herself as an ally to LGBT youth and "another cringey millennial."
"As an educator, I am constantly worried if I am part of the problem," stated Shaffer. "Public education is an institution that upholds lots of problematic systems in our society like white supremacy and misogyny and colonization, etc. I try to undermine that B.S. in my classroom as much as I can."
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