Glassbrook Elementary is located in Hayward, California which is south of Oakland on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. The school has just under 500 students and lately it has been struggling with falling test scores. But that didn’t stop the school from signing a $250,000, three-year contract with a company called “Woke Kindergarden” which, as the name suggests, provides training to teachers (but not to students in this case) on how to fight white supremacy.
One teacher at the school, whose name is Tiger Craven-Neeley, felt the expense wasn’t justified under the circumstances. Funding for the Woke Kindergarten program came from federal money which was intended to boost performance at America’s lowest performing schools. Why, Craven-Neely wondered, wasn’t the money being spent on something designed to bring up reading or math scores? One thing was certain, Woke Kindergarten…
