3 May 2021
Voters in Southlake, Texas, a suburb of the Dallas/Fort Worth area, gave school board and city council candidates who oppose putting critical race theory in public school curriculums 70 percent of the vote in an election on Saturday.
The election comes nine months after the Carroll Independent School District introduced a proposal to install so-called “anti-racism” and “cultural competency” lessons into the schools.
Congrats to Southlake, Hannah, Cam, John, Randy and Amy! Critical Race Theory ain’t coming here. This is what happens when good people stand up and say, not in my town, not on my watch.
NBC reported favorably about the people who backed the progressive changes:
Candidates who opposed a local school diversity plan took about 70% of the vote
Published May 3, 2021 •
Updated on May 3, 2021 at 11:36 am
Tom Fox/Dallas Morning News
Nine months after officials in the affluent Carroll Independent School District introduced a proposal to combat racial and cultural intolerance in schools, voters delivered a resounding victory Saturday to a slate of school board and City Council candidates who opposed the plan.
In an unusually bitter campaign that echoed a growing national divide over how to address issues of race, gender and sexuality in schools, candidates in the city of Southlake were split between two camps: those who supported new diversity and inclusion training requirements for Carroll students and teachers and those backed by a political action committee that was formed last year to defeat the plan.
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The Leftist agenda to destroy children through the toxic Critical Race Theory (CRT) curriculum was dealt a significant blow this past weekend.
Opponents of anti-racism education win big in a bitterly divided election in Southlake, Texas. Conservative candidates who opposed a school diversity plan won every local race, taking about 70% of the vote in the wealthy Dallas-Fort Worth suburb. https://t.co/m7rtlYh3X0
Nine months after officials in the affluent Carroll Independent School District introduced a proposal to combat racial and cultural intolerance in schools, voters delivered a resounding victory Saturday to a slate of school board and City Council candidates who opposed the plan.
Candidates opposed to critical race theory swept Saturday s race in Southlake
School district had been embroiled in bitter controversy for nine months
Last summer, plans for diversity training were announced after offensive video
Conservative parents fiercely opposed plan, saying it called for diversity police
Others insisted new curriculum was needed to battle racism and inequity
Now, candidates opposing the diversity plan win board seats by wide margins
It comes amid a national debate over critical race theory in classrooms
Southlake Setback: Candidates Opposing Diversity Training Win Texas School District Election
KEY POINTS
Candidates in favor of diversity plan not surprised by the outcome
Southlake grabbed national headlines in 2018 over a racist video
As the U.S. continues to grapple with racism and fatal police shootings of Black people, opponents of anti-racism education have won big in Southlake, Texas, school board election. This comes as a setback amid calls for change in the country and a broader national reckoning over racism following the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
Southlake, a historically conservative city where about two-thirds of voters supported President Donald Trump last year, grabbed national headlines in 2018 when a clip of some white Carroll high school students chanting the N-word went viral.