Wisconsin | August 17, 2021
Local Parent Group Faces Threat To First Amendment Rights In Mequon-Thiensville School District Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty Steps In To Stop Harassment
Wisconsin | August 17, 2021
Across the country, parents are fighting back against masking requirements, zoom instruction and the push by the far left to teach our children that the United States is a racist nation.
In the Mequon-Thiensville School District (MTSD), parents are so upset they are working to recall school board members.
This active parent group has been working to recall four school board members in the Mequon-Thiensville School District. According to one organizer, they need approximately 1,000 more qualified signatures to force a recall election with just over one week left to collect the signatures.
The parents cite shrinking enrollment, declining test scores, and lower overall academic achievement while the tax levy continues to go up. Parents believe that board members “have shown time and again they are not interested in representing the interests of their constituents and families of MTSD, only to surrender their decision-making power to the superintendent.”
Additionally, the parents also cite “wasteful spending” by the school board, after they spent $42,000 on services to Blaquesmith Consulting for equity and diversity materials. … (Excerpts from the Maciver Institute)
Wisconsin | August 17, 2021
Questionable Curriculum: A Review Of Critical Race Theory In Wisconsin
Wisconsin | August 17, 2021
The two bills being heard are SB411/AB411 relating to anti-racism and anti-sexism pupil instruction and anti-racism and anti-sexism training for employees of school districts and independent charter schools, along with SB463/AB488 relating to requiring school boards to make information about learning materials and educational activities used for pupil instruction available to the public.
Parents and lawmakers have recently started to wake up to the threat of CRT in schools, but there is a concerted, organized, and vast campaign to push CRT onto our children that has been going on for years. Many on the left argue that CRT is just a theory, saying that CRT, or as it is known under one of its many aliases, is not actually taught in the classroom or that is not a central tenet of curriculum. However, the MacIver Institute has been uncovering instances of Critical Race Theory in education since 2014.
Before the hearing tomorrow where some will try to make the argument that CRT is just a figment of our imagination, we thought we would share a reminder with our readers of how pervasive CRT is in Wisconsin.
For a complete review of CRT in Wisconsin, please visit MacIverInstitute.com and click on the Big Issues tab.
Questionable Curriculum: Who Is Pushing Critical Race Theory On Our Children?, August 10, 2021.. (Excerpts from Maciver Institute)
Wisconsin | June 15, 2021
Teachers Are Feeding Critical Race Theory to Our Kids. Look What’s Happening in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin | June 15, 2021
MADISON, Wis.—A widespread, vigorous debate is going on in this country right now about critical race theory and if it should be taught in our local schools.
Critical race theory is an academic discipline that has been around for decades but only recently became the ideology of the far left in its push to tear down our country, destroy the principles our country was founded on, and eliminate the protections every American is afforded under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Critical race theory seeks to fundamentally and profoundly change the United States forever.
Critical race theory preaches that the United States was founded on racism, grew to become the successful nation that it is today because of this racism, and that our country, still today, is fundamentally defined by our racism and racism is found in everything that we do and that we do not do.
Christopher Rufo, director of the Initiative on Critical Race Theory at the Manhattan Institute, writes that “critical race theory prescribes a revolutionary program that would overturn the principles of the Declaration of Independence and destroy the remaining structure of the Constitution.” ..
(Excerpts from the Daily Signal)