Texas School District Shames White Students As Part Of ‘Cultural Competence,’ Parents Enraged

Texas School District Shames White Students As Part Of ‘Cultural Competence,’ Parents Enraged

"...The Carroll Independent School District of Southlake, a Dallas suburb, is the “top-achieving school district in Texas,” according to The Federalist’s Joy Pullmann.

...But because of videos showing students singling along to rap lyrics and the media attention they received, the district overreached and instituted programs meant to combat “institutional racism” but that in reality shame white students for the color of their skin.

The district adopted a “cultural competence” plan, Pullmann reported, after the videos went viral and “sometimes-crying taxpayers, parents, and students spent hours insisting their lives have been forever damaged by the kind of ‘institutional racism’ in Southlake illustrated by the rap sing-alongs.”

...The rush to assume guilt was perpetuated by public figures, Pullman reported:

Retired Dallas Cowboys player Russell Maryland and Robin Cornish, the widow of another Cowboy, who both have kids in the district, used national media appearances to pressure the town to enact a “Cultural Competence Action Plan,” or CCAP. 

A long-form article from NBC News in January that quotes Cornish accuses the town of harboring racists...Read all.