It's real and I wish it wasn't. :/ Two things I've personally heard discussed.
1. Teaching "evolution" instead of "creationism"
2. "Oppressing" white students with "diversity".
I've personally experienced the second in the 1990s. A few teachers and professors are really into social justice and take it way too far. No matter how much I agree with them, I can not support berating and shaming white students in front of an entire class as if they were personally responsible for actions that occurred over century before their ancestors even reached the US. (My ancestors did not come from imperialist nations that murdered entire native tribes, thank you very much.)
For people who are already primed to think the worst of the entire education system, my experience is all the proof they need that the entire system is out to destroy them.
1. Teaching "evolution" instead of "creationism"
2. "Oppressing" white students with "diversity".
I've personally experienced the second in the 1990s. A few teachers and professors are really into social justice and take it way too far. No matter how much I agree with them, I can not support berating and shaming white students in front of an entire class as if they were personally responsible for actions that occurred over century before their ancestors even reached the US. (My ancestors did not come from imperialist nations that murdered entire native tribes, thank you very much.)
For people who are already primed to think the worst of the entire education system, my experience is all the proof they need that the entire system is out to destroy them.