JUST IN: The right-leaning national organization, Parents Defending Education, agreed to drop its suit as Wellesley Public Schools promised to clarify that any student can join the affinity groups it initially created for students of color.
challenging its creation of affinity groups for Black, Latinx, Asian and other students of color.
The affinity groups launched last school year as a part of the suburban Boston district's five-year,"diversity, equity and inclusion" plan. The district at the time said the groups were an"opportunity for people within an identity group to openly share their experiences without risk of feeling like they will offend someone from another group, and without another group's voices.
"Because racial affinity groups divide children by race, these groups foster racial division and do far more harm than good," the group argued in its complaint. The national organization, which has filed similar complaints in Ohio and other states, describes itself as a national group formed to"prevent the politicization of K-12 education, including government attempts to force students into divisive identity groups and to silence students who express opposing views."
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