"This is false:" Radio host accuses Mukwonago High School teachers of teaching white privilege

MUKWONAGO -- A Milwaukee radio talk show host is accusing Mukwonago High School of teaching students that they have so-called "white privilege." School officials are firing back, and so are students.

"Our school needs to be represented in a positive way," Emily Diderrich, Mukwonago High School senior said.

Diderrich takes pride in her school. She is class president and a student representative to the Mukwonago Area School District School Board, so when she found out her school was being targeted in a negative light, she decided to speak out.

"I was just really confused," Diderrich said.

Vicki McKenna, WISN Radio talk show host accused the AP psychology teachers at the school of teaching students that they have white privilege. She said it was brought to her attention by a parent of the student in the class.

"Only white people can be automatically prejudiced and implicitly biased because only white people have white privilege and that's what the class is teaching," McKenna said.

On her blog, McKenna posted a practice exam question.

"It was taken grossly out of context," Diderrich said.

Diderrich explained, nowhere in the curriculum was white privilege ever mentioned.

"I invite you to look for it, because it`s not in here. I know that was never even taught," Diderrich said.

Instead, Diderrich said it was a lesson on implicit tendencies -- people's habits and behaviors, no matter your race.

Mukwonago Area School District Superintendent Shawn McNulty is also standing by the class -- issuing this statement to FOX6 News:

McNulty said the curriculum for the class was created by the AP College Board.

"We`re all supporting these teachers and we`re all supporting what they do," Diderrich said.