Family sues WCS over Critical Race Theory law violation
A family sued the Williamson County School Board Friday, challenging the board’s adoption of a curriculum that the group claims violate Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of Critical Race Theory and Common Core.
The group Parents’ Choice Tennessee named plaintiffs in the case James and Patricia Lucente, parents of a first-grader enrolled in the Williamson County school system. They are reportedly alleging that a language arts curriculum known as ‘Wit & Wisdom’ is replete with age-inappropriate materials that promote a skewed and racist view of history and instead portray one race as inherently superior to another or inherently privileged and oppressive.
“The curriculum was adopted through a process in violation of state law and over the objections of several parents and educators who raised serious concerns about the graphic, racist, and age-inappropriate nature of much of its content,” said Lucente.
The Lucentes named the Williamson County Board of Education, Superintendent Jason Golden, Assistant Superintendent Dave Allen, and the State Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn as the defendants in the case, according to the PCT.
“Wit & Wisdom uses Social Emotional Learning to masquerade as a sort of “feel-good” approach that steers young elementary-age children to horrific discussions of the savagery of slavery, war, misery, sexual aggression, and death,” Lucente went on to say. “Wit & Wisdom is conditioning our children to view the world through the eyes of a critical theorist, which is destructive and divisive. It’s very clear that this failed curriculum focuses more on political literacy instead of literacy. Not only has Williamson County failed to protect our children from this harmful material, but they have also failed to protect our teachers by instructing them to teach this questionable and destructive material with fidelity or else.”
https://www.wvlt.tv/2022/07/09/family-sues-wcs-over-critical-race-theory-law-violation/
And here we go! He doesn't give any concrete examples, but then, they never do.....! Hopefully he gets laughed out of court and has to pay to send his brats to private school.
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