{"id":550972,"date":"2021-06-03T13:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T17:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=550972"},"modified":"2021-06-03T13:50:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T17:50:59","slug":"these-parents-successfully-pressured-their-school-board-to-ditch-divisive-equity-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-parents-successfully-pressured-their-school-board-to-ditch-divisive-equity-training\/","title":{"rendered":"These Parents Successfully Pressured Their School Board To Ditch Divisive Equity Training\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthese-parents-successfully-pressured-their-school-board-to-ditch-divisive-equity-training%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=550972&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Education-Training-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>About two weeks ago, I covered a proposed \u201cEquity Training\u201d contracted for the steep price of $37k by Douglas County School District in Colorado. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/colorado-school-district-shells-out-37k-for-anti-racism-training-via-zoom\"><span>proposed training<\/span><\/a><span>, provided by a consulting firm called <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegeminigroupllc.com\/\"><span>The Gemini Group<\/span><\/a><span>, was to be completed via zoom, available for staff and community members. It has been confirmed this week that the training was abruptly canceled late on the evening of March 25th as the result of parent backlash.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This comes as welcome news to thousands of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/virginia-parents-file-lawsuit-against-school-board-over-equity-ambassador-program\"><span>parents<\/span><\/a><span> across the country who have been fighting the same battle against Critical Race Theory in their home districts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This success is particularly notable given the apparent disconnect between the values espoused by the parents in the district and those running the DCSD schools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Correspondence between Douglas County Superintendent Corey Wise and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegeminigroupllc.com\/\"><span>The Gemini Group<\/span><\/a><span>, submitted by a parent to The Daily Wire, are illustrative of how parents are perceived by school leaders and the pricey consulting firms they contract to indoctrinate their staff and students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response to the news of cancelation, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegeminigroupllc.com\/\"><span>The Gemini Group<\/span><\/a><span> released an official statement, reporting that they \u201cwatched the school board meeting\u201d (during which multiple impassioned parents appealed to the teachings of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.,) \u201cand were disgusted and appalled at the level of misinformation and conscious misunderstanding\u201d demonstrated by parents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In their conclusion, after referring to Andrew Jackson as a \u201cgenocidal maniac\u201d in the preceding paragraph, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegeminigroupllc.com\/\"><span>The Gemini Group<\/span><\/a><span> accused \u201cWhite parents\u201d of \u201cdemanding that we not talk about race,\u201d in a \u201cwillful attempt to maintain the status quo.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response to The Gemini Group\u2019s official statement, Superintendent Wise responded that, \u201csadly,\u201d DCSD parents \u201cjust aren\u2019t ready for this work \u2026 at this time.\u201d At no point in his response did Corey come to the defense of DCSD parents\u2019 values or validate the merit of their concerns.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Regardless of differences in views, parental pressure was sufficient to convince Superintendent Wise to cancel the training, a decision which was explicitly attributed to his leadership in subsequent emails.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For parents fighting CRT in other states, success in Douglas County may be replicable in other purple districts. Located just outside of deep blue Denver, Douglas leans conservative, but only by a modest margin. In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-elections\/colorado-results\"><span>2020<\/span><\/a><span>, voters in Douglas County voted 52.4% for Trump, compared to 45.2% for Joe Biden. However, as copious reporting now suggests, opposition to Critical Race Theory may prove to be a uniting issue among conservatives and moderate liberals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Together, conservatives, along with an increasing portion of liberal Americans, recognize what <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehistorymakers.org\/biography\/reverend-dr-wyatt-tee-walker\"><span>Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker,<\/span><\/a><span> contemporary and close advisor to Dr Martin Luther King Jr., recognized in a 2015 essay. Walker <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2020\/10\/12\/the_civil_rights_legend_who_opposed_critical_race_theory_144423.html\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span>:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"25\">\n<p><i><span>\u201cToday, too many \u2018remedies\u2019 \u2014 such as Critical Race Theory, the increasingly fashionable post-Marxist\/postmodernist approach that analyzes society as institutional group power structures rather than on a spiritual or one-to-one human level \u2014 are taking us in the wrong direction: separating even elementary school children into explicit racial groups, and emphasizing differences instead of similarities.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cThe answer is to go deeper than race, deeper than wealth, deeper than ethnic identity, deeper than gender. To teach ourselves to comprehend each person, not as a symbol of a group, but as a unique and special individual within a common context of shared humanity. To go to that fundamental place where we are all simply mortal creatures, seeking to create order, beauty, family, and connection to the world that \u2014 on its own \u2014 seems to bend too often towards randomness and entropy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Portions of the parent testimony that led the school board to reconsider can be heard <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?app=desktop&#038;v=xfj2WWpwZT4&#038;feature=youtu.be&#038;fbclid=IwAR0cl1LTvZfzVzTFSJ4be7dpJx2OjVGJdNc5ND3KJS7dQh7F8zPC_D4hwUE\"><span>here<\/span><\/a><span>. An additional full length speech can be heard <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/555436027\"><span>here<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Is your school district implementing divisive \u201cEquity Trainings\u201d? We want to tell your story. Contact me at <\/span><span>ghowe@dailywire.com<\/span><span> or on IG <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/georgiamaehowe\/\"><span>@georgiamaehowe<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks ago, I covered a proposed \u201cEquity Training\u201d contracted for the steep price of $37k by Douglas County School District in Colorado. 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