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EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Public High School Bans Students From Picking A White Male Scientist For Biography Project

Yorktown High School, a public school in Arlington, Virginia, handed out a physics assignment instructing students to pick a famous scientist, engineer, or inventor to focus on for a biographical project. But the assignment came with a catch: Students are not allowed to choose a “white, non-Hispanic male.”

The assignment states: “Your inventor should share at least one marker of identity with you. However, they cannot be a white, non-Hispanic male. Reason: Our textbooks and schooling is filled with famous while male scientists & engineers. It gives the impression that nobody else (female, persons of color) has contributed to science. This Eurocentric view is false…”

Here is the original classroom assignment, provided to Big League Politics by a concerned parent. BLP awaits comment from the principal […]

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