Wed Jul 13, 2022 – 5:56 pm EDT
FRANKLIN, Tennessee (LifeSiteNews) – A Tennessee school board faces a lawsuit from a parental rights group alleging that the district’s curriculum teaches critical race theory (CRT).
Parents Choice Tennessee filed a lawsuit Friday against Williamson County Board of Education, Tennessee Commissioner of Education Penny Schwinn, and officials from the Williamson County School District. Plaintiffs also include Patricia Lucente and her husband James Lucente. The lawsuit holds that they have a child enrolled in the district.
According to the lawsuit, the “Wit and Wisdom” curriculum used by the district for K-5 classes teaches CRT in violation of state law, and that the curriculum uses age-inappropriate materials and causes children to feel guilt and anguish.
“Critical Race Theory is an inherently divisive, debilitating and racist teaching practice that instructs students to only view life through the lens of race and presumes that some students are consciously or unconsciously racist, sexist, or oppressive, and that other students are their victims. Like all forms of political indoctrination, it has no place in Williamson County school classrooms,” the lawsuit holds.
Speaking in a press release, Patricia Lucente said, “The curriculum was adopted through
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