A New York City school’s students were pictured wearing tags identifying them by their ethnicity while the school encouraged students to join ethnicity-based “affinity groups,” The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Students at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a private pre-K to 12th grade school, were pictured wearing name tags denoting their ethnic identity, such as “Black” “Jewish,” according to the NYT. Additionally, the school encouraged students to join organizations known as “affinity groups” that organized students by race, as well as religious and cultural identity.
The school’s spokesperson told the NYT that the name tags were only used at the beginning of the previous school year and were a mistake.
The school also encouraged affinity groups for parents; school officials in June emailed families inviting them to a “listening session” with the purpose of teaching parents about raising children…
