{"id":589781,"date":"2026-04-21T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=589781"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:00:00","slug":"california-school-excludes-white-kids-from-segregated-social-justice-field-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=589781","title":{"rendered":"California School Excludes White Kids From Segregated ‘Social Justice’ Field Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

California School Excludes White Kids From Segregated ‘Social Justice’ Field Trip<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

In a stunning display of racial exclusion dressed up as \u201cequity,\u201d a California school district barred white students from a taxpayer-funded field trip centered on \u201csocial justice.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Albany Unified School District (AUSD) organized the overnight trip to Virginia exclusively for \u201cyoung men and women of color\u201d from Albany High School. White kids stayed home while their non-white classmates toured Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), visited civil rights sites, and held discussions on social justice, leadership, and self-awareness.<\/p>\n

The trip was officially approved by the board of education and cost the district $42,845. Documents obtained by the parental rights group Defending Education and shared with the\u00a0Daily Caller News Foundation<\/a>\u00a0lay bare the full\u00a0scope\u00a0of this race-based program.<\/p>\n

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EXCLUSIVE: California School Sent Kids On Segregated Field Trip For ‘Social Justice’: ‘Organizing programs and initiatives around racial categories’ https:\/\/t.co\/hxkfukWnkn<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThis unique mentoring program encourages Albany High School young men and women of color to develop social, personal, and academic success skills,\u201d the board document states. \u201cStudents gather in a safe, supportive, and empowering environment to voice their needs and challenges. The students engage in enriching discussions on social justice, education, leadership, mental well-being, and self-awareness. This mentoring program is transforming the lives of young men and women of color to make a significant global impact in society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with HBCU tours, participants visited the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial, and the Black Heritage Trail.<\/p>\n

This is not an isolated incident. AUSD maintains a host of other race-specific initiatives. Its 2025-2026 Local Control and Accountability Plan includes \u201cYoung Men of Color and Young Women of Color Programs\u201d aimed at providing \u201csocial emotional supports to most underserved students\u201d as part of a $1,257,234 budget line for mental health efforts. The district also pushes \u201cprofessional development\u201d for staff on \u201cculturally responsive\/anti-racist pedagogy\u201d to support \u201cstudent groups who are persistently and historically underserved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hiring\u00a0practices follow the same\u00a0pattern. A 2026 superintendent report outlines goals to \u201cRecruit and Retain a Diverse, High Quality Staff\u201d through \u201cequitable recruitment pipelines,\u201d \u201caffinity-based supports,\u201d and a \u201cBlack Teacher Project.\u201d The district even tracks staff demographics as a measure of success.<\/p>\n

AUSD\u2019s website further details a protocol for any potential ICE\u00a0activity\u00a0on campus, instructing staff \u201cNOT to provide any information\u201d and declaring the district a \u201csafe haven\u201d for immigrant families. It also openly states its aim of \u201cRecruiting and retaining excellent, diverse teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The district did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Paul Runko, senior director of strategic initiatives at Defending Education, condemned the approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents and teachers are best served when opportunities are based on merit and individual need, not immutable characteristics like race and ethnicity,\u201d Runko noted.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cSchools should focus their limited time and resources on challenging high-achieving students, supporting those who are struggling, and ensuring all students receive a high-quality education, rather than organizing programs and initiatives around racial categories. Great, hard-working teachers should be supported, mentored, and retained for their effectiveness in the classroom, not based on race or any other characteristic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0story\u00a0ignited immediate backlash on X. Defending Education president Nicki Neily posted details of the affinity groups and district-funded trip, highlighting how AUSD maintains these race-based programs.<\/p>\n

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The district plans also include staffing goals tied to racial composition, including recruitment and retention programs for teachers of color and district benchmarks for increasing workforce diversity. https:\/\/t.co\/EzD3gnex1n<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Nicki Neily (@nickineily) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other users quickly labeled it revived segregation. One commenter noted the broader\u00a0pattern, pointing out that districts like LAUSD run identical race-exclusive trips for Black students to visit HBCUs.<\/p>\n

Posts sharing the development described it as \u201cno whites allowed\u201d programming and accused the left of teaching minority children to view race through a lens of division rather than unity.<\/p>\n

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No whites allowed: School district sends kids ‘of color’ on cross-country ‘social justice’ field trip https:\/\/t.co\/yMN9BGqdWN<\/a> via @worldnetdaily<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Deborah Toppings (@karas13133) April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This episode exposes the core contradiction in today\u2019s woke education\u00a0machine. The same activists who lecture endlessly about dismantling \u201csystemic racism\u201d have no problem erecting racial barriers when it suits their narrative. In California, where open-border policies and sanctuary rules already strain public resources, school districts like Albany Unified double down on identity politics instead of delivering color-blind excellence.<\/p>\n

Taxpayers are left footing the bill for programs that sort children by skin color, train staff in \u2018anti-racist\u2019 (racist) ideology, and prioritize demographic quotas over classroom results. Meanwhile, every student\u2014regardless of background\u2014loses out when schools abandon merit for grievance.<\/p>\n

The push for \u201csocial justice\u201d has produced the very segregation civil rights leaders once fought to end. Districts chasing racial affinity groups and exclusive trips are not healing divides; they are widening them at public expense.<\/p>\n

Public schools\u00a0exist to educate children, not to engineer racial outcomes or indulge activist fantasies. Until districts like Albany Unified face real accountability, this taxpayer-funded racial sorting will only accelerate.<\/p>\n

Your support is crucial in helping us defeat mass censorship. Please consider donating via\u00a0Locals<\/a>\u00a0or check out our unique\u00a0merch<\/a>. Follow us on X\u00a0@ModernityNews<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 04\/21\/2026 – 13:00<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California School Excludes White Kids From Segregated ‘Social Justice’ Field Trip Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a stunning display of racial exclusion dressed up as \u201cequity,\u201d a California school district barred white students from a taxpayer-funded field trip centered on \u201csocial justice.\u201d Albany Unified School District (AUSD) organized the overnight trip to Virginia… Continue reading California School Excludes White Kids From Segregated ‘Social Justice’ Field Trip<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/589782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}