Student Files Lawsuit Against Nevada Charter School For Allegedly Being Forced To Take Critical Race Theory Curriculum

The suit was filed against Democracy Preparatory Academy, Agassi Campus in Nevada by a student and his mother. The suit alleges that the biracial twelfth-grader was required “to make professions about his racial, sexual, gender and religious identities… which were subject to the scrutiny, interrogation and derogatory labeling of students, teachers and school administrators.” The school’s curriculum included classes such as “Sociology of Change,” a mandatory civics course where he would learn about ‘intersectionality theory’. The suit also shows many examples of Marxist teachings of critical race theory with a bonus email from the Teacher referring to students as her “wonderful social justice warriors!”

Check out this great thread by Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) who digs deep into the lawsuit and explains just how crazy this whole thing is.

1/ 🚨BREAKING: Lawsuit filed today against educational agencies, teachers, principal, & CEO responsible for hosting workshops requiring children to make public professions about their racial, sexual, gender & religious identities, some of which were singled out for interrogation. pic.twitter.com/bwyd7lV8An

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

2/ Educators directed the plaintiff "to reveal his identities in a controlled, yet non-private setting, to scrutiny and official labeling," and are "coercing him to accept and affirm politicized and discriminatory principles and statements that he cannot in conscience affirm."

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

4/ Plaintiffs claim that the educators' "coercive and intrusive behavior compelled William Clark’s protected speech and invaded his privacy, violating his constitutional rights under the First Amendment and his due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment."

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

6/ The new educational sessions were not "descriptive or informational" but were "normative and prescriptive."

"Parents…were not aware of the turn towards coercive, ideological indoctrination until they began seeing the detrimental effects it worked up in their children." pic.twitter.com/L1Q85wZSI8

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

8/ Plaintiff "was obliged to profess himself complicit in 'internalized privilege [which] includes acceptance of a belief in the inherent inferiority of the [corresponding] oppressed group' [and] supporting 'the inherent superiority or normalcy of one’s own privileged group.'" pic.twitter.com/p5puy2osQw

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

10/ The plaintiff, student William Clark, has suffered "severe mental and emotional stress" resulting from the hostile environment and is "living in fear" of retaliation.

This proved justified, as he has now been suspended and accused of being a racist. pic.twitter.com/dDaLH587sl

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

12/ COUNT II: VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE U.S CONSTITUTION pic.twitter.com/hFwzbd5Tko

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

14/ COUNT IV: VIOLATION OF THE FIRST & FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT (42 U.S.C. § 1983) (Substantive Due Process: Establishment Clause, Family Integrity &
Retaliation) pic.twitter.com/ncvlLgtie4

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

16/ COUNT VI: (Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq.) pic.twitter.com/lA0DaHkhJy

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

18/ To my knowledge this is the first lawsuit of its kind. Keep a close eye on this one, as it could set a precedent and cause a lot of dominoes to start falling.

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

20/

▫️The Four "I"s of Oppression: Institutional, Ideological, Interpersonal, and Internal

▫️False "wage Gap" statistics claiming women get paid less for doing "the same job" as men

▫️It is impossible for non-whites to be racist pic.twitter.com/VQ4zgwNoBq

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

22/

▫️Overview of institutions and how they oppress

▫️Encouraging children to think about their identities to empower them and fight their oppressors

▫️A list of their teacher's identities (including sexual) and the "privileged" and/or "oppressive" nature of each pic.twitter.com/2P6r2RJ7s4

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

24/

▫️Culture = values + society

▫️More personal information on their teacher's identities

▫️Teacher refers to students as her "wonderful social justice warriors!" pic.twitter.com/pVJuKzJJOi

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

26/

▫️Calls for students to "unlearn" certain beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors (aka brainwashing)

▫️How families and religion, as well as other institutions, are oppressive

▫️Internalized oppression pic.twitter.com/g51GkUIgUb

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

28/

▫️Vocab

▫️Describing society as "the master's house" that needs to be "dismantled"

▫️US values and norms

▫️Ways to "fight back" pic.twitter.com/oGK4tkFqkU

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 23, 2020

Here’s the lawsuit: