Washington school district to cut music classes for promoting 'white supremacy'

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Washington school district to cut music classes for promoting 'white supremacy' and 'institutional violence'
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CANDACE HATHAWAYApril 26, 2023
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A Washington school district recently announced that it plans to cut music classes for promoting "white supremacy" and "institutional violence."Show more

Olympia School District, which comprises 19 schools that enroll nearly 10,000 students, held a school board meeting last week in which board members voted to eliminate the district's music classes.
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During a three-hour meeting on April 13, the board discussed cutting fourth- and fifth-grade band and orchestra classes to accommodate that district's $11.5 million budget shortfall and combat racism.

School board director Scott Clifthorne explained that the district's elementary instrumental music courses were disproportionally administered at each campus.

"We know that people experience different amounts of time of elementary instrumental music education," Clifthorne stated. "We know that there are some places where students never miss core instruction as a result of going to instrumental music, and we know that there are other campuses where that's a struggle."

The school board director added that the OSD "is entrenched in and is surrounded by white supremacy culture."

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He added that there is nothing "intrinsically white supremacist" about string or wind instrumental music but that the courses have the potential to push a racist culture within the district.

"The ways in which it is and the ways in which all of our institutions — not just schools, but local government, state government, our churches, our neighborhoods — inculcate and allow white supremacy culture to continue to be propagated and caused significant institutional violence are things that we have to think about carefully as a community," Clifthorne said.

Alesha Perkins, a parent with three children enrolled in the district, told Fox News Digital that OSD has "reached a level of absurdity" that is difficult to ignore.