“This policy is going to harm students in the classroom [and] overburden our teachers for a political agenda,” St. John said.
QUICK FACTS:
- The Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District board voted to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) curriculum in its 17 public schools and virtual school this week, the Washington Examiner reported.
- “These policies are the product of input from several groups — the board’s policy committee, the district’s attorneys, the board’s attorneys, a committee of administrators and principals and, most importantly, community members,” board member Casey Ford said.
- The new policy also included requiring the use of pronouns assigned at birth and students and staff to only be using the bathroom of their birth-assigned gender.
BOARD MEMBER BECKY ST. JOHN OPPOSING THE CRT BAN IN TEXAS SCHOOLS:
“This policy is going to harm students in the classroom [and] overburden our teachers for a political agenda,” St. John said.
BACKGROUND:
- The meeting stirred up a lot of controversy, as nearly 200 people stepped up to the mic to either support or sound off on the policies discussed.
- “You’ve heard from parents and students who are under threat,” Andrew Fiser, a Methodist minister said. “Don’t vote against them. This is a white nationalist, fascist agenda. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. This is not Christian behavior.”
- Parents across the country have flooded school board meetings the past few years to protest the use of CRT in classrooms, claiming teachers should solely focus on academics.
