Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Virginia School District’s Critical Race Theory Indoctrination

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A Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by families seeking to block their local school district’s “anti-racist” policy that labels white, Christian students as a part of an oppressive “dominant culture.” The lawsuit was brought by five families against the public school system of Albemarle County, Virginia. The school district in 2019 adopted an “Anti-Racism Policy,” which the suing families said is based on critical race theory (CRT) and promotes racial stereotypes and race-based discrimination. The policy “is designed to indoctrinate students in ‘anti-racism’ ideology, which actually promotes racism,” the complaint (pdf) states. The families pointed to a curriculum taught to eighth graders in 2019. Created under the “anti-racist” policy, the curriculum defines the term “racism” as “the marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.” It also tells students that they may consciously or unconsciously “uphold aspects of white supremacy, white-dominant culture, and unequal institutions and society” if they’re not actively “anti-racist.” ...

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