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Parents Revolt After Texas\u2019s No. 1 School District Tries To Institutionalize Racism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Parents of kids attending Texas\u2019s top-performing school district found out what their schools have been teaching in the name of \u2018racial justice,\u2019 and they are livid.<\/p>\n

A suburb of Dallas, Texas has exploded into national media coverage and\u00a0arrests of school board members<\/a>\u00a0after parents found out what their schools have been teaching in the name of \u201cracial justice.\u201d They\u2019re fighting back with lawsuits and challengers for two school board seats in an election that finishes May 1.<\/p>\n

Carroll Independent School District of Southlake is the top-achieving school district in Texas. It has no racial achievement gaps, which is nearly unheard of. That\u2019s because Southlake attracts high-achieving families of all races.<\/p>\n

The local median income is more than four times the national average and poverty there is statistically nonexistent. According to\u00a0district data<\/a>, \u201cmicroaggressions,\u201d bullying, and racially charged incidents happen approximately three times per month in the district of 8,500 students, meaning they involve 0.3 percent of students a year.<\/p>\n

Yet, beginning in 2018, the district rushed into an eye-popping \u201ccultural competence\u201d plan after two videos of students singing the n-word along with rappers went viral on social media. Media outlets went nuts on the story, and so did local school board meetings, where sometimes-crying taxpayers, parents, and students spent hours insisting their lives have been forever damaged by the kind of \u201cinstitutional racism\u201d in Southlake illustrated by the rap sing-alongs.<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t complaining that rappers stud songs with racial slurs, or that parents let their kids listen to such music. They were complaining about things like teasing and graffiti. They demanded the school district end such annoyances, and even treat them like crimes, or be convicted in the court of public opinion of enabling \u201cinstitutional racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Is Everyone to Blame for What a Few Racists Do?<\/h2>\n

Retired Dallas Cowboys player Russell Maryland and Robin Cornish, the widow of another Cowboy, who both have kids in the district, used national media appearances to\u00a0pressure<\/a>\u00a0the town to enact a \u201cCultural Competence Action Plan,\u201d or CCAP. A\u00a0long-form article<\/a>\u00a0from NBC News in January that quotes Cornish accuses the town of harboring racists.<\/p>\n

Cornish also\u00a0told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/a>\u00a0in February 2019 the school district was \u201csweeping this under the carpet, and they are complicit. Unfortunately, this is the way our country is right now. Southlake is a microcosm of that. We have someone running the country right now who says it\u2019s OK to be racist.\u201d<\/p>\n