A Massachusetts School District Provided a Math Assignment on 'Systematic Racism'
Madeline Leesman | May 15, 2025 12:00 PM
Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts provided ninth-grade students with a math assignment about “systematic racism,” according to documents obtained by Defending Education (DE).
DE exclusively shared with Townhall the assignment from May 12, 2025. The assignment was focused on incarceration rates of people who were white, black, and Hispanic. One part of the question tells students: “Explain how you believe systematic racism creates the data displayed by the above timeplot.”
"Newton Schools work hard to ensure that their captive audience of students uncritically adopts their preferred world view — even in math class. What happens if a student doesn't believe in structural racism? Do they fail 9th grade math?" Erika Sanzi, director of outreach for DE, told Townhall.
This isn’t the first time Defending Education sounded the alarm about this school district.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/05/15/a-massachusetts-school-district-provided-a-math-assignment-on-systematic-racism-n2657067#google_vignette
