Oroville High teacher Marta Shaffer astonishingly tells students GRAMMAR is rooted in 'white supremacy'
OROVILLE, CALIFORNIA: An English teacher is facing backlash after claiming "white supremacy runs deep" in US public schools and that she combats that "BS" in her classroom by citing "arbitrary" grammar and writing rules as examples of rules "created by Westerners."
Marta Shaffer, a tenured English teacher at Oroville High School, reportedly began the 2022-2023 academic year by teaching her students parts of linguistics as a way of "fighting white supremacy in my classes," per videos she posted on a TikTok account named @ShafferLovesToRead. She said the goal was to be "inclusive of all kinds of ways we use the language." One of her videos made waves on Twitter after it was shared on the platform by the popular conservative account @LibsofTikTok, after which Shaffer's TikTok appears to have gone private.