‘White privilege’ lessons for NSW public school students slammed

High school students are being taught “wall to wall woke” identity politics – including lessons on “white privilege”, “unconscious bias” and “micro-aggressions”.

High school students are being taught “wall to wall woke” identity politics – including lessons on “white privilege”, “unconscious bias” and “micro-aggressions” in workshops delivered by a boutique social justice consultancy.

The teens are also forced to participate in exercises such as a “What is Privilege” shaming game designed to separate them on the basis of differences such as skin colour, sex and family background to highlight “unfair advantages and unearned privileges”.

Some of the lessons taught by High Resolves, which was founded in Sydney and has since spread to the United States, have even been run as substitute lessons for official Human Society In Environment (HSIE) classes.

High Resolves lesson plan involving a privilege walk back and forth.

The woke lesson plans revolve around identity politics, Marxist theories on wealth inequality, social justice, climate change, globalisation and racism where children are told they have “inherited” racial gender and sexual biases from society.

One Nation MP Mark Latham, who uncovered the curriculum and lesson plans, slammed it as “political indoctrination” contravening strict bans on political matter.

“I have constantly warned about woke and weird consultancies coming into schools, being paid political indoctrination – but this is the worst example of the lot,” he said.

High Resolves lesson plan involving social justice and identity politics lessons in schools.

“They run classes and programs that are wall-to-wall political indoctrination, straight from the woke, left-wing playbook.

“There’s nothing in there saying Australia is one of the more egalitarian places in the world, nothing but denigration about how wretched the place is.

“And all taught with nonsense like trigger warnings.”

One Nation MP Mark Latham. Picture: Richard Dobson

The High Resolves organisation has taught at Kincumber, Sydney Boys, Prairiewood, Plumpton, James Ruse, Hornsby Girls, Kariong Mountains and Ryde High Schools.

In its privilege lesson plans, called Step Forward, Step Back, students are told they must step forward if they “get time off for your religious holidays”, “are able to move through the world without fear of sexual assault” or “felt like you had adequate access to healthy food growing up”.

High Resolves lesson plan involves social justice and identity politics lessons in schools.

They are also advantaged if they studied their own culture or history of their ancestors. They must step backwards if they have been the only person of their race/gender/socio economic or sexual orientation in a classroom, did not speak English at home or felt their face was not represented accurately in the media.

School newsletter at Kariong Mountains High School about the lessons from High Resolves, including the privilege lesson for Year 8 students and unconscious bias for the Year 9 students.

Class notes say the idea is to “dismantle the systems that create the unearned privilege”.

“Students should observe that individuals who may be identified as white and male were near the front of the line,” the lesson plans state.

“ … people with lighter skin tones are typically part of a privileged group, and the rules of society and public opinion have usually favoured these people.”

Pupils are also told that asking “where are your people from?” is a microaggression. An Asian woman deciding to stand on a bus and not sit next to an indigenous man could be “unconscious bias”.

“High Resolves seeks to create a more just, equitable and inclusive world through the transformation of a critical mass of individuals into citizens, who think, feel and act in the long-term collective interest of humanity,” the organisation states.

High Resolves, which reported $7.5 million income last financial year, was set up by Mehrdad Baghai and his wife Roya in 2005 as “a personal passion project” and an experiment at his son’s school.

NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell Department declined to answer questions about the program but a department spokesman said the workshops “align with the national curriculum”.

“In the small number of schools in which these workshops have occurred, they have run for less than an hour and occurred once in the school year.

“This equates to less than 1 per cent of a student’s annual time spent in HSIE.

“The school has received no complaints about this provider or the content.”

Originally published as ‘White privilege’ lessons for NSW public school students slammed