Black school principal in Texas suspended after being accused of teaching critical race theory.

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Don Moynihan
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Aug 30, 2021
Black school principal in Texas suspended after being accused of teaching critical race theory.

Which will definitely persuade people that systemic racism is not a thing https://dallasnews.com/news/2021/08/30/i-have-done-nothing-wrong-colleyville-heritage-principal-says-after-gcisd-puts-him-on-paid-leave/…
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Don Moynihan
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What’s the best case scenario here? The school principal gets his job back but there is a very clear marker to him and all educators in Texas that their job depends on not offending the angriest person at the school board meeting. Classic chilling effect.
6:31 AM · Aug 31, 2021

Colleyville Heritage High School principal James Whitfield has been placed on paid administrative leave, according to Grapevine-Colleyville ISD officials.

In a letter to parents Monday, Superintendent Robin Ryan wrote that Whitfield has been placed on leave but that he would “not go into the specifics because it is a personnel matter.”

Whitfield told The Dallas Morning News on Monday night that he was told he was put on leave indefinitely “because the superintendent has ‘determined that doing so is in the best interest of the District.’”

“I have done nothing wrong by anyone,” Whitfield said.

The move comes a week after the principal and a crowd of supporters attended a school board meeting to address claims from a group of parents who say he is teaching critical race theory.

*snip*

[no_hypocrisy]

1. GO TO COURT, SIR!

[Greybnk48]

4. Exactly! n/t

[gratuitous]

2. How many principals are teachers?

It's been a while (ahem) since I was in high school, but I don't recall too many (if any) principals teaching classes. But since it's never about race, we can be confident that there's no racial or racist component here.

[Lovie777]

3. K & R . . .

[MagickMuffin]

5. Colleyville Heritage High School is racist at its core

From September 12, 2016



School officials in Texas apologized Monday for a Donald Trump-themed pep rally featuring a sign depicting the border wall that the presidential candidate wants to build between the United States and Mexico.

Students at Colleyville Heritage High School in the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District posed with Trump-themed signs before a football game against Trinity High School of the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District on Friday, setting off allegations of racism after pictures appeared on social media.

“This is disgusting,” one Trinity alumnus wrote on Facebook. “I remember other high schools being snobby and backhanded about our socioeconomic status when I was at Trinity High School but this is just too far.”

“On behalf of everyone here, I’m sorry,” Colleyville Heritage High School principal Lance Groppel said in a statement obtained by The Post. “We made a mistake and we have to learn from it going forward. While I believe it was not the intent, I do believe that it is important to have a full understanding of the impact that comments can have on others.”

https://nypost.com/2016/09/12/majority-white-high-schools-trump-pep-rally-has-rivals-crying-racism/

[ZonkerHarris]

6. Colleyville taxpayers will be writing a big check to this guy when he sues them

hope they are rich because his lawyers will soak them good.