Leftist and Marxist teachers across Texas have been outed by local parents and patriots, and they are being fired or leaving public schools as fast as they can.
If you haven’t been paying attention, the single most effective conservative political movement in decades is happening all over Texas independently and all at once, and it’s happening in your local school board.
When James Whitfield, the Black principal at Colleyville Heritage High School in Texas, wrote a letter to the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District in the days after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, he received only positive feedback. “Education is the key to stomping out ignorance, hate, and systemic racism,” he wrote.
One year later, he would be out of a job.
In July 2021, Stetson Clark, a candidate running for school board, accused Whitfield of teaching critical race theory using that same letter at a contentious board meeting. Clark said that Whitfield had “divisive ideologies” and was “encouraging the disruption and destruction of our district.”
“These groups accusing me of teaching CRT are so absurd,” Whitfield said. “They would take anything we were doing with diversity, equity and inclusion, repackage it and just fearmonger.” But the accusations about CRT, a college-level academic theory, and “indoctrination of students” kept coming.
Whitfield’s ordeal is a part of a worrisome effort by right-wing extremists, leaders and warriors to discredit public educators. And it’s not unique to Texas. Kim Morrison, a high school teacher in Missouri, was told her contract wasn’t being renewed after she assigned a worksheet titled “How Racially Privileged Are You?” to her high school students. In Tennessee, Matthew Hawn was let go for teaching his students about white privilege.
But as the culture warriors target teachers and other educators for teaching students about racial justice or being inclusive of the LGBTQ community, another crisis is unfolding.
It’s only a “crisis” if you’re a leftist.
These leftists have been outed, and in many districts they can no longer brainwash and indoctrinate your kid into their Marxist death cult for 8 hours a day. As a result, they are fleeing public education, but the battle is just starting.
Conservative school boards are under attack by national media constantly because, unlike Ted Cruz and Dade Phelan, they are actually doing something and are willing to endure the slings and arrows for Texas’ future.
If you are not involved it’s time for you to find a local group and start working.
Remember, every time you see a news headline about a teacher fired or that annoying PTA mom posts on Facebook that a “great” teacher is leaving the district, it’s a sure bet they were a leftist.
Keep marching forward, parents. You’re the only effective conservatives in the entire GOP.
Let’s hope our elected officials pass some decent law for our 88th legislative session next year.