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A South Carolina school district will remove illegal critical race theory from its curriculum following a lawsuit against the South Carolina Freedom Caucus.
A settlement agreement Tuesday between the state Freedom Caucus and Lexington County School District One requires the district to terminate its contract with EL Education after an employee was caught circumventing South Carolina’s anti-CRT law, the Freedom Caucus said in a statement. press release.
South Carolina has a budget provision that prohibits critical race theory-based ideas through the school’s funding process.
Schoolchildren hold signs against critical race theory, a school of thought that generally focuses on the influence of power structures and institutions on racial minorities. (Daniel A. Varela)
The settlement in the Lexington Court of Common Pleas requires the Lexington district, which contains 31 schools and more than 28,000 students, to fully comply with all South Carolina laws prohibiting CRT instruction and training for students, teachers and other personnel.
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“The terms of this plea deal show that Lexington School District One was caught red-handed peddling pernicious, racist nonsense from the left,” said South Carolina Freedom Caucus Vice Chairman RJ May. “This is a victory for the Freedom Caucus, for parents, but most importantly, this is a victory for students who will no longer be subjected to radical, liberal indoctrination by the district.”
In October, the South Carolina Freedom Caucus obtained a five-minute recording from Tarika Sullivan, a professional development specialist for EL Education, who said the education nonprofit has “allies” and “co-conspirators” willing to ban CRT teaching concepts “even if (they) get into trouble.”
Sullivan praised CRT’s principles, including “culturally relevant pedagogy” and considering which “parts of your identity are privileged”. EL Education is working with a number of South Carolina schools in developing curricula that “go against mainstream education,” she said.
“Anti-racism” is “at the core” of EL Education’s curriculum, the website says.
People hold up placards during a demonstration against the ‘critical race theory’ (CRT) taught in schools. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
Freedom Caucus Chairman Adam Morgan said the caucus will continue to fight for parents, teachers and students. The Freedom Caucus is part of an ongoing lawsuit with the Charleston County School District for teaching suspected CRT-derived ideas.
“Career politicians, afraid to take on the teachers unions and the education institute, laughed at parents all over South Carolina when we filed this lawsuit by claiming that CRT was not in our classrooms,” said Morgan.
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According to the Freedom Caucus’ 31-page complaint, the Lexington County precinct’s curriculum contains several books promoting critical race theories.
The students line up to enter their respective classrooms. (Craig Hudson)
Students read Tiffany Jewell’s “This Book is Anti-Racist,” which teaches children that “if you’re white,” you automatically have “internalized racial superiority,” and “The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person,” which states, “We have a problem with white people.”
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Teachers in the district also conducted “privilege tests,” in which white students were room-separated from “repressed” minority students, the Freedom Caucus complaint says.
“Despite the naysayers, the Freedom Caucus persevered and won,” Morgan said. “It’s time for our moderate Republican colleagues to support the conservative values the SCFC champions.”
EL Education and Lexington County School District One did not respond to Fox Digital’s request for comment at time of publication.
Elizabeth Troutman is a College Associate at Fox News Digital.
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