Minnesota middle school offers anti-ICE slides for eighth grade extra credit

A Minnesota middle school geography class presented slides characterizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as having “harassed” migrants and offered extra credit for watching a video on deportation policies associated with former President Trump. The lesson prompted backlash from advocacy group Defending Education, which criticized the content as biased and propagandistic. The school administration defended the lesson as compliant with state educational standards, which emphasize antiracist and culturally sustaining curricula.

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