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Anonymous ID: 12e3ac July 30, 2021, 1:11 a.m. No.14228658   🗄️.is đź”—kun

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jul/29/rhode-island-school-district-fights-keep-critical-/

 

A committee formed to craft sweeping “anti-racist” policies for a Rhode Island school district has refused to make its meetings public, prompting another legal challenge between those seeking to impose critical race theory in K-12 education and concerned parents and taxpayers.

 

The issue in Rhode Island’s South Kingstown School District again pits the mother of a kindergartner there, Nicole Solas, against the combined weight of progressive administrators who have paid at least $5,000 so far to an outside consultant to run the policy-making committee.

 

Ms. Solas, who garnered national attention after speaking against CRT at a committee meeting in June, is now represented by the conservative Goldwater Institute. She filed her complaint with the Rhode Island attorney general after she was told she could not attend weekly meetings of the BIPOC Advisory Board, a group that began meeting last September to propose new policies for hiring, athletics, discipline and a host of other concerns for the K-12 public schools there.

 

The board is led by Robin Wildman, founder of Nonviolent Schools RI, who has been paid $7,474 for her services through June 30, according to school vendor records. It is expected to finish its work by August, and thus far the South Kingstown School Committee has given preliminary approval to the Board’s proposed changes to its discrimination policy.

 

In a May interview with The Collective, a left-wing bookstore and “organizing space” in Peace Dale, RI, Ms. Wildman said she approached the school district with the idea for a “BIPOC group that would look at policies and practices and make recommendations to create a more inclusive, antiracist district.”

 

A retired 5th-grade teacher, Ms. Wildman said she believes teaching and activism go hand-in-hand.

 

“I believe in working for justice, not equal rights,” she said, saying that systemic racism means “the vast majority of those that control all of the systems in our country are White.

 

“Justice means breaking down the oppressive systems that prevent BIPOC from accessing opportunities in your community that White people have,” Ms. Wildman said.

 

Ms. Solas said she learned of the board’s existence through a local news report, and that Ms. Wildman was being paid to “facilitate” the board’s meetings. ..