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Missouri Teachers, CRT Advocate Plotted to Hide Social Justice Curriculum from \u2018Trump Country\u2019 Parents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Teachers questioned how they could teach history and social studies through a social justice lens without rankling parents in the ‘highly conservative county … in the middle of Trump country.’<\/div>\n
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The curriculum-writing team in a suburban St. Louis school district plotted with a critical race theory advocate on how to keep parents in the dark about their efforts to inject leftwing social justice advocacy into their classrooms, according to a video of their meeting leaked online.<\/p>\n

The video, posted on\u00a0rumble.com<\/a> in early July, is alleged to be a condensed version of a September 2020 webinar that members of the Francis Howell School District\u2019s curriculum-writing team participated in. The webinar was hosted by their equity consultant, LaGarrett J. King, an associate professor of social studies education at the University of Missouri. He was described on the call as a specialist in the study of \u201crace, critical theories and knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear who edited the video, which appears to have been posted anonymously by someone with the online moniker \u201cwokeatfhsd.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the webinar, King told the predominantly white team members that \u201cThis is not a safe space,\u201d but rather a \u201cracialized space,\u201d because \u201cIn many ways a safe space is a space where white people tell us how not racist they are. And this is not that space.\u201d<\/p>\n

King said \u201cthe first thing we have to understand is that our social studies and our history curriculum is political and racist,\u201d and \u201cthere is no such thing as neutral history.\u201d He then asked the team members to question whether they are developing black history curriculums through the historical lens of the oppressor. \u201cWe have made those who have oppressed people, the oppressor, we have humanized them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The nation\u2019s founding \u201cmeans nothing to black people,\u201d he said, calling history \u201cpsychologically violent\u201d but one-sided. He also seemed to justify violence in the name of racial justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our wars was about freedom, violence,\u201d King said. \u201cBut yet, when black people say, \u2018Hey \u2026 we need to take over, man. We need to burn this place down, we need to do this, we need to do that.\u2019 \u2018Oh no, you should do non-violence to achieve freedom.\u2019 It\u2019s silly. It\u2019s prejudice.\u201d<\/p>\n

During a question-and-answer portion of the webinar, teachers and staff on the call questioned how they could reframe their classes to look at history and social studies through a more racialized social justice lens without rankling parents in the \u201chighly conservative\u201d community, which one teacher described as \u201cthe middle of Trump country.\u201d King agreed that teachers could do away with verbiage like \u201cwhite privilege,\u201d while still getting the progressive message across to students.<\/p>\n