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IDENTIFYING BIAS IN CURRICULUM: Bias Checker

Virginia Beach City Public Schools, Virginia

Submitted: 2021-06-28

Story:

The School Board Equity Policy in section F states that all curriculum materials shall be examined for bias by the Department of Teaching and Learning. An e-mail obtained through FOIA shows one of the resources they could be considering using as a "bias checker template". While some of the items in the bias checker are positive, not everyone may agree with some of them.

Take a look for yourself. Here are some of the items they are considering:

* Does this source present Whiteness as the standard or norm?
* Does this source present gender binary as the standard or norm?
* Does this source demonstrate positive sexual identities
* Does this source present Christianity as the standard or norm?
* Does the source include a conversation or example of non-citizens that normalizes other forms of residency?
* Does this source assume that people involved with the criminal justice system are at fault or guilty?
* Does this source present US Citizenship as the standard or norm?
* Does this source present two-parent, birth families as the standard or norm?

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