AWAKE Illinois President Shannon Adcock wants to make sure Gov. J.B. Pritzker is clear about his job description in the widening fight over masking in Illinois schools.
Parent Stephanie Clark said the recent decision by the District 41 (D41) school board to engage with the Learning 2025 program introduces the district to equity training similar to Critical Race Theory.
“People should be outraged. The board literally spent four minutes discussing this and said it was tied to the social and emotional development of our kids. That was it. They’ve slipped in a critical race theory curriculum without anybody knowing,” Clark told
DuPage Policy Journal.
In an email to parents, former D41 school board president Erica Nelson said current D41 school board president Robert Bruno and others are inserting diversity teaching to Glen Ellyn District 41.
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Jul 8, 2021 | 4:30 PM
(The Center Square) â A group in Illinois is looking for chapters across the state to help keep tabs on teaching plans they say are dividing children.
A parent in Naperville, Shannon Adcock, said she became aware of âculturally responsive teachingâ when she was unsuccessful in running for the school board. She said the more she learned about it, the more she felt it was regressive and divisive by teaching children race or gender directly impacts outcomes.
âYou are having students segregated by their color, by their sexuality, by their any number of filters that an activist teacher can choose and say âso because of your skin color you are a problem, because of your skin color you will never make it in life, because of this intangible systemic problem in one of the greatest countries in the world,â and to me, itâs to me extremely anti-Americanism, itâs anti-child and I believe it to be