In a document obtained by SCPOC from year 2021, we exposed the radical agenda being taught in the North Shore School District. An application by Principal Eric Contreras, the school acknowledges engaging in CRT over race and gender. CRT, or “Critical Race Theory”, is the cultural Marxist agenda where students are judged based on their skin color.
The following section was taken from pages 18 and 19 of this document.
The English and Social studies departments have developed plans to support culturally responsive teaching and curriculum. This has included shared readings in our history classes, a review of texts in our English classes, and teacher professional learning session with Teacher’s College on book clubs that are representative of multiple voices and experiences. We moved along with this work this year despite the operational challenges of the pandemic as we see this work as critical in supporting all our learners and is aligned to publicly shared value of students as collaborators and committed individuals who “experience multiple perspectives and ways of seeing and experiences
to gain a deeper understanding”. This year one of the shared social studies reading was Ibram Kendi’s non-fiction work “How to be an Anti-Racist”. We also encourage difficult conversations on Race and Gender in our classes where multiple perspectives are celebrated. The school is also very active in supporting identify groups such our LGBT club, in special events, and in substantive conversation about our health curriculum and the number of gender-neutral restrooms.
In this aforementioned book, Kendi write, ““The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination,” Kendi writes, arguing that by discriminating against the favored group, society is actually leveling a historically unlevel playing field.