The "RED Print" or How My Town Became The Model for Fighting Critical Race Theory in America’s Schools
Southlake showed you can't just beat critical race theory at the polls, you must defeat it in a landslide victory.
By now you’re aware of the massive battle waged in my town between parents and advocates of critical race theory, including the school board itself. I wrote about this today for Newsweek, a five-point plan for taking back school districts from the grasp of Marxist critical race theory, and I hope you read it:
The second step: gather numbers. One parent alone is easily attacked by the well-funded and well-organized opposition. Good, decent people may be scared to speak up because no one wants to be falsely maligned as a racist simply for opposing Marxist bigotry in schools. Southlake families organized online and in person with regular meetings and daily communication. It took a year to get to election night success. You cannot be afraid to speak in defense of your children and of your neighbor who echoes your concerns. Fear has no place here: you must speak out in defense of your children and of each other. If you cannot speak up for your own children against Marxist indoctrination, who will? This is part of parenting.
When CRT activists introduced their well-prepared, $3 million dollar Cultural Competency Plan (CCAP) parents knew after a quick read that this plan was anything but inclusive:
The plan defines “microaggressions” as “everyday verbal or nonverbal, snubs or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized or underrepresented group membership” (page one) and details how the district would track “microaggressions” for inclusion on a student’s “discipline offense history.”
The main strategies of the plan include: Require “diversity and including training for students as an ‘enrollment to graduation’ process in all grades and on CISD campuses,” implement CRT curriculum for each grade, regularly survey students on “inclusion and diversity,” establish a hotline for reporting violations “that inhibit progress toward cultural competence goals”
All school clubs must undergo “equity audits” and hire a Director of Equity and Inclusion, teachers undergo mandated equity and inclusion training.
The district must create a PR campaign with magazine ads and professionally produced video “featuring equity messaging”
Throughout the fight, numerous parents filed public information requests (PIRs) and discovered:
Several school board members allegedly violated Texas’s Open Meetings Act (one parent filed suit; the DA convened a grand jury and indicted two board members). School Board President Michelle Moore still refuses to step down.
School administrators spent $15k taxpayer dollars to travel around the country and give presentations on “white privilege.” Julie Thannum, the Assistant Superintendent of Community and Board Relations, stated in her presentation that the school was implementing positions before they were even presented to the school trustees for approval within the CCAP plan: “Privilege is a very powerful thing and we’ve taken it for granted for too long. We’ve been focusing a lot on our employees because they are the ones in front of our kids. We’ve brought in trainers, we’ve talked about things like white identity, white supremacy, cultural awareness, cultural bias, white fragility … we have campus diversity councils at every campus, we tried a leadership and culture coach.” (Thannum’s resignation was announced last night’s school board meeting.)
The CISD board hired a PR firm, Sunwest Communications for the “development of a comprehensive proactive and reactive strategic communications plan to include a proposed action plan, timeline, and recommendations to obtain broad community support for a revised Cultural Competency Action Plan.” Coincidently, after hiring the firm, NBC showed up in our community with cameras to do hit pieces on parents who objected to CCAP
One of the school board members applied for a VOCA grant (a fund that provides compensation to victims of violent crimes) to pay for CCAP by misrepresenting CISD as a “campus-based victim services agency” as the best way to describe the applicant (it was rejected)
Parents must fight back. You owe it to your children and your community. This is the “red print” for a landslide condemnation against Marxism in our schools and communities.
From the packed school board meeting last night. This is CISD dad Sanjay Veerabathina:
For more:
Parents Revolt After Texas’s No. 1 School District Tries To Institutionalize Racism
Texas School District Shames White Students As Part Of ‘Cultural Competence,’ Parents Enraged
Texas School District Shames White Students As Part Of ‘Cultural Competence,’ Parents Enraged
CISD Parent Juan Saldivar tells other parents to fight back
Agitators Get Dirty To Push Institutional Racism In Texas’s No. 1 School District
Conservative Slate of Candidates Hoping to Stop School Diversity Plan Wins Big in Southlake
Parents Vote To Stop Critical Race Insanity In Texas’s Top School District
'Anti-woke' candidates win Texas school board race
Carroll High School Assistant Principal Renee James caught on audio discussing training kids in CRT
For more information on how Southlake fought back against institutionalized Marxist racism masquerading as education in its school district, visit SouthlakeFamilies.org.
Right on Dana! So happy to see communist bullcrap soundly defeated! It needs to keep happening everywhere this trash ideology is taught or even suggested be taught!
All it take is a few people that see the BS in CRT and make a change to correct the failure. Congrats to the people in Southlake for taking back their schools...