(PatriotPostNews.com) – On May 30, 2024, students at Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy in Alexandria, Virginia, were segregated by race during one afterschool activity. Children were separated by race, white students were allowed to play games, while black and mixed-race students were excluded from playing.
The activity, intended as a segregation reenactment, was part of a fourth-grade social studies class. Parents asserted that their children were emotionally damaged as a result of the segregation reenactment and demanded an apology and explanation. After backlash, the school principal released a statement citing the social studies activity as “inappropriate.” However, many parents did not feel that this went far enough and demanded an apology and corrective action.
According to parents, the students who reenacted being pro-segregation voluntarily apologized to the students that they had been excluded from play during the reenactment.
On May 31, 2024, United States District Judge Paul Barbadoro, struck down a New Hampshire law that banned teaching critical race theory in public schools. Barbadoro ruled that the law was unconstitutional and in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The judge also asserted that the law was too vague to be enforceable.
Opponents of the ruling assert that the law prevented educators from portraying one race as superior to another and further assert that Barbadoro’s ruling invites racism into the classroom. Teachers’ unions as well as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) celebrated the ruling as a win for educational freedom.
A Caucasian history teacher in Elk Grove School District in Sacramento County, California, filed a federal lawsuit against his teacher’s union for allegedly denying him a leadership position because of his race. The teacher, Isaac Newman, claims he was denied a seat on the Elk Grove Education Association Teachers Union executive board for being white. The executive position was advertised with the stipulation that only non-white candidates could apply. The Civil Rights Act prohibits unions from race-based discrimination. Newman’s case remains unresolved.
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