A public school district in Massachusetts is encouraging its students and staff to report on one another for “incidents of bias,” according to newly uncovered documents. The documents include Wellesley Public Schools’ (WPS) guidelines (pdf) on how to handle complaints of bias among students and staff, and slides from a mandatory “equity protocols” training course. They were obtained and released by Parents Defending Education (PDE), which describes itself as a grassroots organization working to reclaim schools from “activists promoting harmful agendas.” According to Wellesley’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, a “bias incident” is any “conduct, speech or expression that has an impact but may not involve criminal action, but demonstrates conscious or unconscious bias” against any federally protected identity group, i.e., “race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.” Students are encouraged to report incidents of discrimination or “any concerning pattern of biased …