The Southeastern Legal Foundation has filed an illegal discrimination suit on behalf of Illinois' District 65 teachers in Evanston and Skokie, charging they are being forced to accept a policy that purports “white identity is inherently racist.”
The suit charges the new policy only makes divisions in schools more pronounced and works to promote greater segregation.
“By vowing to define its teachers and students solely by their race, District 65 promotes and reinforces a view of race essentialism that divides Americans into groups based solely on their skin color,” SLF General Counsel Kimberly Hermann said. “District 65 teaches its teachers and students that their whole identity comes from the color of their skin. It teaches them to hate each other. It teaches them not only how to be racist, but that they should be racist. This is illegal, wrong, and must be stopped.”
The core of the debate leads back to school officials recently moving to make critical race theory a regular part of the curriculum. Just last year, Sup. Devon Horton is reported to have admonished District 65 instructors, “If you’re not antiracist, we can’t have you in front of our students.”
District 65 school officials recently conducted an audit of the system where they sought feedback from educators, administrators, and parents about the school’s curriculum.
“This is part of a multi-faceted approach to short and long-term planning for the future of our public schools in Evanston/Skokie,” the school said in the survey it distributed. “An audit transcends most single events or occurrences that are happening at any given point and instead seeks to gather information on processes that are in place.”
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