Carlsbad Unified School District board members unanimously approved a controversial ethnic studies course at one of its high school’s Film Academy last week.
The course is part of Carlsbad High School—called Film Academy Ethnic Studies—and will focus on past representations of minorities in Hollywood films as well as “emerging voices” in the film industry.
The proposal to add it to the curriculum was originally made at the Feb. 15 board meeting. But it was not approved at that time because the course description included what the board deemed inflammatory language such as “institutional racism” and “white Eurocentric dominant culture.”…