Tessa Truemper Choi is doing all she can to make sure parents opposed to critical race theory (CRT) can do something about it.
“Those against CRT/Deep Equity, here is an opt-out form you can fill out,” Truemper Choi posted to Facebook. “We need to overwhelm the district, they will have to make concessions for those children whose parents have opted out. If we can’t get the district to cancel their contact we can at least take back control over what we want the schools teaching our children.”
Truemper Choi isn’t the only one sounding the alarm bell.
Paris Cooperative teacher Russell Jane Witmer recently warned about the perils she sees stemming from CRT.
“Beware,” she recently posted on Facebook. “It may soon be coming to our schools, perhaps mandated by the state or perhaps only pushed by ‘woke’ extremists among our minority Democrat citizens in this country. Beware.”
Witmer said she finds strength knowing that others are also committed to fighting.
“A white teacher in Evanston/Skokie Dist. 65 is suing the school district for discrimination for teaching CRT to children and forcing it upon their teachers,” she said. “As always, students are divided into racial groups and those who are white are told how bad and racist they are. Teachers are segregated during training and told how privileged and racist white teachers are and that if they aren't, according to the superintendent, 'anti-racist,' they won't get in front of a classroom of students.”
Witmer said she’s not surprised things have come to this in Illinois.
"Critical Race Theory has made it to Illinois, which should surprise no one since we live in a deep blue state,” she said.
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