Summit County courts dismissed a lawsuit against Summit High School Principal Tim Ridder this week.
On June 9, Silverthorne resident Michael Hornback filed a lawsuit against Ridder seeking $250,000 in damages, saying that the school was teaching false and misleading curriculum to students related to critical race theory and claiming the teachings are “discriminatory, slanderous and are an indoctrination of young people to stereotype white people … as oppressors of non-white people.”
In the lawsuit, Hornback pointed specifically to Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi’s book “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You,” which he alleged was secretly being taught by a teacher at the school. He asked the court to ban the book and teacher from ever entering Summit County again.