Last week, an exclusive story appeared on this website about Dayanna Volitich, a social studies teacher at Crystal River Middle School in Florida who was moonlighting as “Tiana Dalichov,” the host of a white nationalist podcast called “Unapologetic.”
Volitich splashed racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic beliefs all over her alter ego’s social media accounts and podcasts. She even talked about getting away with racist behavior in the classroom when parents complained about her white supremacist views.
While Volitich has garnered an incredible amount of attention and backlash, many minority students can tell you that teachers like her, and the ideologies that reportedly bled into her classroom, are nothing new.
Reports show that the majority of teachers in the United States are white, indicating a severe lack of representation when it comes to educators in our school system. Similarly, there are marked disparities in education outcomes for children of color,…
