FURIOUS parents have blasted a school in America's wealthiest county for allegedly "infecting" kids with race lessons.
Parents in Loudoun County, Virginia are calling for members of a school board to be dismissed after they reportedly pledged to introduce Critical Race Theory into classes.
Parents of the group "Fight for Our Schools" allege that the board is intent on "infecting our schools with critical race theory", Mail Online reports.
Critical race theorists maintain that legal institutions in the US "function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans," as defined by Britannica.
Board members have been accused of "plotting war" against parents in the county who oppose it.
At a school board meeting, one parent alleged: “[Critical race theory] is not an honest dialogue — it is a tactic used by Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan on slavery very many years ago to dumb down my ancestors so we could not think for ourselves.
“[Critical race theory] is racist, it is abusive, it discriminates against one’s color."
She added: "Let me educate you: An honest dialogue does not oppress. An honest dialogue does not implement hatred or injustice."
The furious parent urged the school board to grow a backbone and "to think twice before you indoctrinate such racist theories".
Another said the school board had made Loudoun County “ground-zero” in the fight against CRT but warned that parents would win the “fight”.
He said: “Every single one of these parents would step in front of a train for their kids, and they will step in front of you too.
"This is the fight of our lives. We are going to go the distance, and at the end of the day, we are going to win."
Monica Gill, an Advanced Placement Government Teacher in the county, told Fox News that the notion of critical race theory had “damaged” the community.
Interim Superintendent Scott A. Ziegler denied that the board is trying to "indoctrinate" students, but rather provide a more inclusive community.
It comes just weeks after a school board in South Lake, Texas won an election to stop “critical race theory” and a new “cultural competence action plan” from being forced into classes.
Opponents of CRT classroom integration claimed the school district were calling for the "diversity police," and that the board was pushing a “left-wing agenda,” the Dallas Morning News previously reported.
Two school board positions, as well as mayor and city council seats, went to opponents of the plan at the contentious poll.
Southlake Families PAC tweeted: “Critical Race Theory ain’t coming here.
"This is what happens when good people stand up and say, not in my town, not on my watch."
Radio host Dana Loesch said that “parents showed up and fought back.”
Legislators in Arizona pointed the finger at "critical race theory" in 2012 in order to crack down on ethnic studies – a curriculum on Latino and Mexican-American history offered in the state's public schools where 45 per cent of students are Latino.
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