Legal group releases guide on how parents can fight back against 'illegal woke education'
Categories: US Education News
The Southeastern Legal Foundation, a conservative nonprofit legal organization that sues the government on constitutional violations, released a guidebook Thursday that aims to give parents an offensive edge against "against unconstitutional and illegal woke education."The guidebook, dubbed "America's guide to saving schools," shows how critical race theory appears in K-12 schools, outlines a student's First Amendment rights, and options people can take if they believe a school has stepped on their rights. "Critical race theory was dreamed up by legal scholars seeking to subvert the Civil Rights Act and the Constitution. Those scholars and the K-12 cartels have worked for decades to push critical race theory into every aspect of America’s education system," the general counsel of the foundation, Kimberly Hermann, told Fox News Digital. "We hope that our guidebook shows parents that the law is their most powerful weapon. The law can be confusing, but whether public schools can treat people differently based on race or compel students to affirm ideas they don’t believe in. We will not win this constitutional war without fighters … This is also about courtrooms." The press release said that public schools are "pit[ting] racial groups against each other" and "then use the full power of government to investigate and silence criticism of this hateful ideology. This is totalitarian tyranny, not a democratic republic."The guide also outlines parents' rights under the law to know what their children are being taught in schools. "States' open records laws require schools, school boards, and functional equivalents to make their records available," the guidebook states.