Washington State School District Considers Cancelling Fourth Grade Music Lessons for Fostering “White Supremacy Culture” and “Significant Institutional Violence”

(Source: The Gateway Pundit)

The Olympia School District in Washington state is considering canceling music classes for fourth graders they suggest foster, “white supremacy culture” and “significant institutional violence.”

The District, facing budget shortfalls, held a meeting on April 17 to discuss budgetary adjustments.

According to KOMO News, School Board Director Scott Clifthorne shared at the meeting,  “We’re a school district that lives and is entrenched, and is surrounded by white supremacy culture. There’s nothing about string, or wind instrumental music that is intrinsically white supremacist. However, 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, and our neighborhoods allow white supremacy to be propagated, and cause significant institutional violence are things that we have to think about here. I think we have to do that interrogation and address the ways in which it creates challenges for the educational day for our elementary learners.”