El Rancho Verde Unified School District will stop requiring its high-school students to take geography and instead require them to take a class on diversity and inclusion.

ERUSD president Aurora Villon said the class is necessary because minority students “need to feel validated.”

“When you negate their culture, they feel less than other students,” she said in an e-mail to Whittier Daily News.

via Calif. School District Decides Learning about Diversity Is More Important Than Learning Geography | National Review Online.

You know the country is in a bad place when you read something like this and don’t feel even the slightest amount of surprise.