EXCLUSIVE — A Mississippi school district has been using teacher trainings to incorporate ideas of critical race theory and asked parents if they were comfortable discussing gender identity and sexual orientation with school staff, according to documents obtained by a parental rights organization.
Activist group Parents Defending Education claimed the documents, obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, show Oxford School District in Mississippi incorporated concepts prevalent in critical race theory, such as"addressing racial injustice," and surveyed the parents of students about their comfort level with discussing gender identity and sexual orientation with school staff.
Social emotional learning has been criticized by conservative groups and parental rights activists for introducing students to concepts that lead to ideas from critical race theory. Scarlen Valerez, a public school advocate associate for Parents Defending Education, told the Washington Examiner that the school district's decision to embrace"restorative justice" ignored the importance of parental involvement.
In another email obtained by Parents Defending Education, a school counselor who was employed at Bramlett Elementary School in Oxford, said they were doing"extra professional development and training in the equity area," which included the Anti-Defamation League's"Pyramid of Hate."
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