These Texas teens stayed silent about racism. Then their Black principal was suspended.

[Nevilledog]

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Don Moynihan
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These are the human cost of the CRT moral panic: a school principal was accused of CRT. No evidence was offered but he was fired. Students say his real crime was trying to create an inclusive environment for those who were traditionally excluded.

These Texas teens stayed silent about racism. Then their Black principal was suspended.
At Colleyville Heritage High, students rushed to defend James Whitfield, who has been accused of embracing critical race theory and is in danger of being fired.
washingtonpost.com
7:31 AM · Nov 4, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2021/texas-teens-whitfield-critical-race-theory/

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https://archive.ph/kABC6

COLLEYVILLE, Tex. — Just after 11 a.m. on a steamy Thursday in September, when Sean Vo should have been heading to AP Statistics, the 18-year-old shut his laptop, zipped his backpack and walked out of school.

All around him, in the well-appointed brick high school that serves Sean’s affluent, mostly White, conservative hometown, other children were doing the same. Like Sean, an Asian American who said reading books by Angela Davis raised his racial consciousness, most of those leaving were students of color. Most of those staying put were White.

Close to a hundred teenagers eventually streamed through the glass doors of Colleyville Heritage High School on Sept. 9, wincing at the sunlight and at the mostly White administrators lined up against a wall to watch.

Sean, who will perform in Colleyville Heritage’s fall play, “Mousetrap,” led the students through the parking lot to a red car, where they grabbed posters scrawled with sharpie slogans — “STUDENT VOICES MATTER,” “Our Youth Will Lead Us” — before marching around campus once and returning to the front of the school.

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[70sEraVet]

1. If it wasn't for young people,

the world would be too hopeless to bear.

[RAB910]

2. Keep it up you racist anti-American scum. These teens will be voting soon enough

[lindysalsagal]

3. Extremist wingers are waging culture wars in the only place available to them: school board meetings

This is a national trend: A few nutballs make all the noise and appear to be the majority. They don't actually care at all about kids and schooling and academics: It's just the only podium available. It's a scorched-earth strategy: Ruin everything you can't control.

[MagickMuffin]

4. Colleyville Heritage High is a racist school

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