CNN article on a school in the Kansas City suburbs where some white parents are complaining about CRT being taught to kids (according to the article it is not) and making white kids feel "bad" or "guilty", while at the same time actual racist incidents are happening at the school, such as a recent petition to bring back slavery. So schools trying to deal with actual racist incidents are finding it more difficult to do so because some parents keep claiming that measures to address said racism are CRT and shouldn't be taught or implemented.
"Nearly two weeks after a racist petition to bring back slavery circulated at her daughter's school, Julie Stutterheim is still angry. She says it was yet another example of a racist incident at Park Hill South High School in the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri. "She was very upset about it. My daughter's Ethiopian," Stutterheim told CNN this week. Her daughter has encountered racism firsthand, Stutterheim says and "the more she talked about this, the more upset she got."
"Stutterheim did what any concerned parent would do and reached out to the school to find out what happened.
What she found was that an increasingly familiar scenario was unfolding at her child's school. Across the US, there are two diametrically opposed conversations about race going on at the same time. In one, some White parents are telling school leaders that lessons about race make White students feel bad. And in the other, there's the racism that is actually happening in schools."
"Part of that response is the district's search for an expert adviser on race and inclusion. Yet many White parents across the US have pushed back against these efforts and conflated it with the debate over what critical race theory is and isn't...At a recent school board meeting, Sally Roller echoed an opinion that many White parents share. "I would like to address critical race theory, sometimes called culturally responsive teaching. History is what it is, whether we like it or not, and should not be rewritten," she said. "I fear this would cause more division and racism by causing others to be seen by skin color rather than the other individual personal qualities of the person."
Critical race theory is not taught in the K-12 curriculum."
"Nicole Price is the CEO of Lively Paradox professional training and coaching. She has been hired in schools throughout Missouri and Kansas. She says she generally gets a phone call after something racist happens. White school leaders are often in a state of shock. " 'Am I surprised?' That's the question I get the most," she tells CNN. She said she's disappointed but never surprised.
These days, Price's job is more challenging than ever. After one Missouri school district hired her to lead a session, the school board got threats, she says. She had a driver and asked for extra security. Price was going to the school to give a keynote presentation on "Radical Empathy."
"Holscher, who lives in Overland Park, says fears of critical race theory is getting in the way of schools dealing with other incidents after a photo surfaced of racist homecoming proposal at a nearby high school in Olathe, Kansas. The school condemned the image, but three weeks before that a father condemned efforts to expand race education in Olathe schools...Parents like Julie Stutterheim feel that her peers need to wake up to the reality of what's really going on in schools. "I watched my White daughter, my older daughter, grow up and not experience the things that my younger daughter has to experience. So that's been really tough to see."
Link:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/us/kansas-city-school-slavery-petition/index.html