Woke school districts are facing backlash for screening their teacher applicants about their political beliefs because they favor left-wing ideology on race and gender. 

The controversial hiring practice, which is being use in more than 500 districts across the US, asks applicants how they would incorporate race and gender into their daily lessons and about what they have done to combat racism in their personal and professional lives. 

A recent report from Ed Week detailed how US school districts are screening teachers' racial biases during the hiring process through these 'cultural competency' questions. 

Although the method is primarily used to promote inclusion and diversity, some districts, like the Shaw Elementary School, in Boston, have gone beyond the norm and asked questions like, 'What have you done personally or professionally to be more anti-racist?' 

Samuel Goldman, a writer for The Week, criticized the relevance of these types of questions for a teaching position and said, 'They're making progressive political views a requirement for the job.' 

Goldman also criticized how some of the teacher's answers are filtered through Nimble, a teaching-hiring software company working with about 500 school districts across the nation. 

'It's bad enough for principals or hiring managers to pry into applicants' opinions on matters irrelevant to classroom content and conduct. It's even worse when they rely on proprietary, woke AI to do the job for them.'