“It basically says white people are at fault. My husband and I are the racist ones, didn’t you know?” Mary says in exasperation. “We considered sending our son to a private school. It was all too much.”
“Mary” is an Evanston, IL mother whose children have attended local public schools from kindergarten through high school.
She noticed the recent debate on CNN and Breitbart.com over Derrick Bell’s Critical Race Theory–and to her, it was nothing new.
She has seen elements of Critical Race Theory introduced into teacher and staff training at Evanston Township High School by the Pacific Educational Group (PEG) in recent several years.
“It just sounded familiar from what I see happening in the schools,” says Mary, who spoke to Breitbart.com on the condition that she remain anonymous. “This has already been going on in my own town, in the school my children attend. It’s alive and well and happening.”
When Mary first received notice that District 202, which runs Evanston Township High School, was going to hire PEG to teach the teachers, administrators and staff about “institutional racism”, she and her husband set out to find out a little more about PEG and learned about Critical Race Theory.
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