Video of a mother from Missouri went viral over the weekend after she insisted that she is not a racist despite her opposition to teaching children about racial justice.
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Given how many tears and anguished faces filled the room during a recent “community conversation” in Eureka, Mo., last week, you’d think someone had died tragically. Naw, it wasn’t really that deep. Just a bunch of white parents complaining about their kids learning about racism and how they feel hurt by the suggestion that they are racist if they push back against an anti-racism curriculum.
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The drama started after parents in the Rockwood School District got a hold of a leaked memo to teachers instructing them to alter or hide elements of the curriculum from parents, according to KSDK-5 NBC.
Amid complaints from parents that their children are being “indoctrinated,” a Missouri school district official is advising English teachers to create a fake curriculum and keep the real one hidden.
The real one is focused on “antiracist” activism and issues of “white privilege,” the Daily Wire reported.
The author of the memo is Natalie Fallert, the literacy speech coordinator for grades 6-12 in the Rockwood School District, serving several towns west of St. Louis that are overwhelmingly white.
She told middle and high-school English teachers in the district that parents had been complaining “we are pushing an agenda,” “we are pushing Critical Race Theory (I had to look this one up!),” “we are making white kids feel bad about their privilege,” we are “stereotyping,” “we are teaching kids to be social activists” and “we are teaching kids to be democratic thinkers and activists.”
The clip was captured at a “community conversation” Friday in Eureka, Missouri which quickly devolved to shouting.
A video of this Missouri woman who insists she isn’t racist for not wanting her children to learn critical race theory has gone viral. (KSDK)
Parents were present to protest the discussion of race in history and literature in the Rockwood School District, which has seen pushback against online learning and even had parents protest the school removing a “thin blue line”-altered image of the U.S. flag from baseball hats worn by the local high school team.
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Even Missouri State Representative Nick Schroer introduced an amendment to House Bill 1141 that would bar school districts from teaching critical race theory. âWednesday afternoon I sponsored the amendment to stop âcritical race theory,â including the erroneous and hate-filled 1619 Project, from being shoved into our curriculum in our Missouri schools. For those trying to push scare tactics claiming this is about âwhite washingâ history, you are dead wrong. This is about ensuring no one taints factual teaching of our American history,â said Schroer.
The effort to not expose students to education on racial justice is currently winning in several states. Yet, a Missouri woman felt compelled to make an emotional statement against it at a âcommunity conversationâ in Eureka, a city located in St Louis County.