Texas principal fights for his job as race roils school district

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Since September, James Whitfield has been suspended from his job as the first Black principal of Texas’ majority-white Colleyville Heritage High School. He stands accused by local parents of pushing “critical race theory” on students.

COLLEYVILLE, Texas — Not long ago, James Whitfield would be awake at 6 a.m., dressed in a suit and ready to lead a high school of about 2,000 kids.

and politicians who feel that efforts to teach America’s difficult history on race, and make classrooms more comfortable with diversity, have become too divisive.has cost him his job for now, he has plenty of supporters, some of whom honk as they pass him in the street. Conservative organizers and parents have seized on the phrase, turning it into shorthand for an entire suite of lessons or programs they feel are un-American and could make white students feel collective “guilt” or Black students see themselves as helpless “victims.”

One school board candidate, Stetson Clark, called him out by name at a July meeting, demanding that he be fired “because of his extreme views” and linking him to a push for the “implementation of critical race theory in our district.” In a statement to NBC News, the school district said it “proposed the nonrenewal of Whitfield's contract due to deficiencies in his performance as principal that have been documented and discussed” and that “critical race theory” was not a factor.

 

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BTW Colleyville Heritage HS (Grapevine-Colleyville ISD) is right next to the Southlake school district (Carroll ISD). FWIW LOL ASDFJKL;

There's no hope for the children if the parent's are so purposefully obtuse!

He's a Black man who said something the white folk didn't like, so of course he had to go. Same racist shit over & over.

'the first black....' 'Majority white..' NBC loves selling hate with racism. It's all they do 24/7 on MSNBC. Nobody husles racism better than they do at nbc

That’s funny because they don’t even know what critical race theory is and it’s only taught in law school and grad school

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