New Mexico's new education standards teach ethnic, social identity lessons to kindergartners

New Mexico’s sweeping new changes to the state’s social studies standards teach racial and social identity lessons to public school children as young as 5.

In third grade, public school children will be introduced to the subject of "community equity building." By fifth grade, they’ll be able to "explain how the treatment of groups of people in the past and present impacts who they are." Seventh-graders will study "the impact of unequal power relations on the development of group identities and culture."