TLDR: Do any of you have good resources, articles, legal precedents, etc to help ensure that White Privilege and Critical Theory get removed from the curriculum?
I talk to my kids everyday after school and we review what they are learning. I recently discovered one teacher began teaching about white privilege to 6th graders. I have spoken with the principle and have a conference scheduled tomorrow to meet in person with the teacher and principle. The teacher has sent me her slides from class and they are racist garbage. I have no challenge arguing against the logic (or lack thereof) of this racist doctrine. However, I need weapons to help make sure this crap gets pulled from the curriculum schoolwide.
My plan is to ask when was this curriculum introduced, who approved it and what alternative points of view were considered. Ultimately, I plan to bring this to the school board and launch an informational campaign in the local community (ie..stand in front of the school driveway with signs and information to protest and educate parents about what the school is teaching their kids). It is a small town and I don;t think it will be very hard to stir up a controversy and get their attention.
Has anyone else faced this and how did you go about winning?
Thanks!
Keep a journal of every little thing, why you moved, how you used to be in a hybrid home schooling program, what your concerns about socialization were, and, what is going on now.
This journal is going to be a book. You can self-publish.
You need a lawyer. You have to show harm. Tort. Somebody has to have injured you in a specific, tangible way. That probably means self-loathing of a minor, which might be called abuse.
These ideas are about a half century old, if even that old.
The school is supposed to teach material that is older than the latest fad.
Gender theory is a few decades old if that old.
Racial intersectionalism is even younger.
Schools are not supposed to teach advocacy, just informational material, and an ability to do further inquiry.
Gates's Common Core is part of this. Other big donors, also.
STAY in the home schooling universe, do not let your membership or dues or contact lapse there. Be very nice to them, you are going to need them again.
Write your book.