A campaign by parents and students has led to a lawsuit against Albemarle County Public Schools.
The plaintiff allege that schools in and around Charlottesville have been indoctrinating students with critical race theory.
As Fox News reports:
“A public school should not, and in this case under the law cannot, indoctrinate kids in a destructive, race-based ideology,” Ryan Bangert, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the organization representing the parents, told Fox News Digital in an interview Thursday.
The kids are “being told that they are defined by their race and nothing else,” Bangert said. “They’re being told that they fit into groups of oppressors or groups of subordinate oppressed based entirely on their race and nothing else, that their success in life or their lack of success in life will be determined by their race.”
“Those are pernicious ideas that directly contradict what these students are told by their parents,” the lawyer added. He claimed that Albemarle Public Schools is “implementing a destructive and harmful ideology and embedding it in the school’s curriculum.”
In the lawsuit, C.I. v. Albemarle County School Board, nine parents and their children claim that the curriculum based on critical race theory (CRT) violates Virginia law and the Virginia Constitution.