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“We see parents really resisting,” said Butcher.

Radical gender theory and CRT are being pushed by teacher unions, colleges of education, superintendents associations, and higher education, in general, he said. In his book, “Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth,” Butcher points out that CRT has hijacked the U.S. Jonathan Butcher, an education fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told The Epoch Times that parents are leaving schools nationwide because they don’t want their children taught radical ideologies. (Andy Barron/Reno Gazette-Journal via AP) It’s not just incompetence, because you can’t be incompetent and do as much damage.” A man holds up a sign against Critical Race Theory during a protest outside a Washoe County School District board meeting in Reno, Nev., on May 25, 2021. “To me, it’s as clear as day this is an intentional thing. “Maybe we’re alarmists, but we’re sitting here looking at this stuff,” parent Nathan Petty told The Epoch Times. The failure there, they believe, mirrors what’s happening to public education nationally and a push for school choice. Parents said in an interview with The Epoch Times that the pandemic exposed problems within the Highland Park Independent School District (ISD) in Dallas, considered one of the most prestigious districts in the Lone Star State.Įventually, the families removed their children from what they see as a diminished public school system. DALLAS, Texas-Four families left one of the richest and most prestigious school districts in Texas over a curriculum they say was increasingly focused on sex, gender, and race, instead of classical education.