For the past few years, TUSD’s Mexican American Studies proponents have claimed that they are the only such program in the country, and that due to the mythical success of the classes they would be exported. The fact of the matter is that Critical Race Theory has been emerging as a basis of all curricula across the country for years.
Now, as we await a decision by federal Judge Bury in the District’s desegregation case, as to whether the curriculum can and should be mandated by the feds, people are awaking up to the fact that CRT is in classrooms across the country and has been for years. MAS is nothing new and not unique.
Eric Owens, of the Daily Caller, writes about CRT in a piece entitled Public high school in Wisconsin indoctrinates students in ‘white privilege.’
“At a small high school in a quaint Wisconsin town, students are learning geometry, chemistry and, of course, that white people have historically oppressed minorities and continue to do so in the present day,” Owens writes. “The curriculum on “American Diversity” at Delavan-Darien High School allegedly teaches students that white skin confers a set of unfair privileges, the Daily Mail reports.”
The CRT foundation was questioned by TUSD Board members Miguel Cuevas, Mark Stegeman, and Michel Hicks, but the actual theory upon which the classes are based is often ignored.
The Critical Race theorist behind the TUSD classes was Augie Romero. Despite having the classes found in violation of state law due to the fact that they segregated students by race and indoctrinated students, Romero is now in charge of developing the District’s new multi-cultural curriculum.
Recently Romero presented his plan to district staff, and according to some they expressed serious concerns over what appeared to be his continuing insistence on segregating students by race. Those concerns were ignored by Romero. According to educators he embedded CRT in the History and Literature curricula, which one educator noted “is very similar to what totalitarian regimes do in other parts of the world.”
According to sources, various parties involved in the desegregation case flew into town this week to address a “difference of opinions” on the proposed Settlement Agreement before Judge Bury.
Should Judge Bury accept the Special Master’s recommendation in the Fisher Mendoza desegregation case that the Court order multi-cultural classes as designed by Augie Romero, CRT will be now exported by the federal court. Judge Bury’s decision had been expected any day.