The Concept Of White Privilege In Education

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The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario offered a workshop on “Re thinking white privilege.” The workshop will look at how teachers address privilege in themselves and their classrooms. Sun news had a discussion about this on their show. Tarek Fatah is an author and broadcaster and was born in Pakistan he had to talk about white privilege with four white people. This seems like a recipe for disaster, and it was. One of the people said white privilege was a fluffy academic term that you learn about in university and does not exist in the real world. Another person compared the concept of white privilege to “Asian Privilege” or “Muslim privilege” and compared it to Chinese restaurants being primarily staffed by Chinese people. Which is