An emotional meeting last week of the Temecula Valley Unified School District devolved into angry disputes about the school board's recently passed resolution to ban critical race theory (CRT).
Temecula, CA - December 16: Great Oak High School students hold signs during a protest of the districts ban of critical race theory curriculum at Patricia H. Birdsall Sports Park in Temecula on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022.
"My family has been here since August 16th, 1619. The first ship ... my family's been here. We've been slaves for 400 years. Don't you tell me to go somewhere,"The ejection left many in the gallery incensed, and they began chanting “Take the woman!” in reference to the white woman who had initially made what they deemed to be the offensive remark. After a prolonged outcry, she too was removed from the room by deputies.
“I think one of the big things in that CRT resolution talked about guilt,” Díaz continued. “It was clarified over and over again that we’re not supposed to teach people to be guilty based on their color of skin, which I don’t think we do in education.”to adopt the resolution to ban CRT. "CRT has no place in our schools. CRT divides and it is divisive."
“I don’t believe there’s ever been a good person of color killed by a police officer,” Stewart was reported to have said, but the comment did not end his political career in the city. He was elected in 2022 to serve as mayor pro tem, and later supported the decision by the city not to observe Black, Asian, Hispanic or Pride months.Stewart said,
“I started to go in and meet with the school district officials and the principals and administration and said our civil rights organizations are concerned regarding the treatment and bad practices impacting Black children,” she said. Hired in 2019, Kenneth Tenny was one of the few Black teachers hired at Chaparral High School in Temecula, and from the start he found an atmosphere that was anything but welcoming.
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