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On this episode of Newt's World, my guest today was an elementary school teacher

up until July 14th of this year. When she resigned her position teaching in Manchester Public Schools

in Connecticut over an excessive focus on race. In the last year, Jennifer and her co-workers

were asked to track their daily activities as part of equity training for the district.

They were required to fill out a daily racial reflection timeline that included the following

instructions. First, list as many actions as possible of your regular daily routine

starting with immediately after you wake up until you return to bed at the end of your day.

Second, after completing your timeline reflect on how race plays a role in what you

have listed. Discussing this with others can help. They then provide a list of choices

of how individuals both white and non-white should feel about race as they move through their

daily routine. She was also given scripts on how to respond to her students. When or if they ask

about the Black Lives Matter movement, how to emphasize race and characters and books.

Here to tell us more about her experience on the front lines of critical racial theory in the

classroom, I am really pleased to welcome my guest, Jennifer Tafuta.

Jen, thank you for joining me today and you know I realize that you were a teacher at

elementary school in Manchester, Connecticut just east of Hartford. Before we get into what

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