“HOW LOUDOUN COUNTY BECAME THE APEX OF THE FIGHT AGAINST CRITICAL RACE THEORY”
Virginia | June 23, 2021
One Virginia school district has found itself at the eye of the politically correct hurricane as the fight against critical race theory dominates headlines in right-leaning media.
The fight between parents and Virginia’s Loudoun County Public School (LCPS) district board came to a head on Tuesday night after police arrested at least two parents who refused to leave a public school board meeting. Parents have been embroiled in a nearly year-long pushback against the district for allegedly pushing critical race theory on children — an allegation the district vehemently denies.
LCPS is far from the only school district in the nation pushing progressive ideology in the classroom. Some of the nation’s most elite private schools, such as Harvard Westlake in Los Angeles and the Dalton School and Spence School in New York City, are peddling this ideology as well. However, the infighting in public schools — which 90 percent of American students attend — is far more telling of what most parents are enduring today.
The beginning of LCPS’s critical race theory push started before the racial uproar sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Between 2018 and 2020, LCPS spent $422,500 in taxpayer funds on diversity training programs hosted by The Equity Collaborative, a California-based consulting firm. …
(Excerpts from the Daily Wire and Parents Against Critical Theory)