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.
Photo from Summit County Sheriffs Office
A Summit County judge sentenced Joshua Ramras to four years of probation during a hearing at the Summit County Justice Center on Thursday, April 22. Ramras pleaded guilty to a felony assault charge after a fight with his roommate in 2019.
On Oct. 1 of that year, Frisco Police Department officers arrested Ramras after a fight left his roommate with knife wounds to the face and hand.
The confrontation began with a disagreement about the roommates’ living situation while the two were out to dinner, according to court documents. They returned home separately where the confrontation turned violent, and Ramras cut his roommate with a knife during the fight.