Critical Race Theory at UGDSB

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Here is the link to the whole video. This clip was from 1:32:40 • https://vimeo.com/430410503/d05d91e481 • Britannica definition • https://www.britannica.com/topic/crit... • • Here is what she said: • “We’ll build a learning plan. Part of that is based on the work we’ve already been doing (over the past year). What we want to do is make sure we’re grounding the new policies in critical race theory. And so we’ll be giving folks some training to make sure that everyone understands what the language says. • Briefly what critical race theory is - it was developed by lawyers. What it says is that we understand that race is a social construct. And the systems we are working in presently in education, they were specifically talking about law, but it’s the same application that because the systems were all developed by folks who were white that they are inherently racist. (in that) • I think people get really confused when we talk about racism often and defense is that they often look at racism based on an individual. We’re not talking here about individual acts of racism because we may not see that. We may not see that. What we’re looking at is how the system itself, the overarching structure and practices and procedures and policies racist? • If anyone has heard of Dr. Kendi he wrote a book based on critical race theory that’s call how to be an anti-racist. In the book he says that policies are never neutral. Nothing is ever neutral. It’s either explicitly anti-racist or it’s upholding white supremacy and therefore racist. Folks get confused because they think there is a middle ground for neutrality and there’s not. That’s the language that’s going to be part of the plan. Making sure folks understand that.” • • My first question to you is what was our inclusion and equity policy based on prior to this new critical race theory being adopted. • My second question is what does it mean for the board to understand that race is a social construct? Does the province understand this? What does it mean in practical terms? Is this an initiative that you have rolled out or is this the UGDSB acting unilaterally? • Thirdly what does it mean by the board saying that systems built by white people are inherently racist because they are built by white people. Does that mean that a project completed by a white person is inherently racist because it was completed by a white person? What about a team of white people? Is that team capable of creating a non-racist product or is that tainted with white supremacy as well?

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