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Eugene

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Wed Sep 22, 2021, 11:41 PM Sep 2021

Beloved Black Principal Fired in Ludicrous Critical Race Theory Spat

Source: Daily Beast

Beloved Black Principal Fired in Ludicrous Critical Race Theory Spat

‘OLD PLAYBOOK’

Dr. James Whitfield is the first Black principal at Texas’ Colleyville High School.

Brooke Leigh Howard
Reporter
Updated Sep. 22, 2021 3:34PM ET / Published Sep. 21, 2021 3:24PM ET

Parents, teachers, and students were furious when a beloved high school principal in Texas was suspended from his post at Colleyville High School last month. Dr. James Whitfield, the school’s first Black principal, was put on administrative leave after being accused of pushing critical race theory in the school’s curriculum. Now, it seems as if their attempts to save him were all in vain. On Monday night, the Grapevine Colleyville Independent School District voted unanimously not to renew Whitfield’s contract.

After a lengthy discussion about budgeting and tax rates, board members opened the floor to community members who had prepared speeches to share in support of Whitfield. After being warned by the board that there would be no “noise or clapping” during the segment, nearly three dozen attendees took to the podium on Whitfield’s behalf.

“I grew up in the Jim Crow South, and what’s going on here is not particularly new. It’s an old playbook,” one resident of Grapevine, who said she lived in the area for 10 years, said. “But to beat it, we need to start being very clear about what’s OK and what’s not OK—or we’re going to continue being bullied by a reactionary minority.

“It is not OK to make baseless accusations about what our schools are teaching, particularly when all you know about the topic is what’s been told by professional propagandists. It is not OK to demonstrate contempt for another human being by making salacious comments about his family… To the board: It is not OK to punish a respected educator for defending himself when you could not find the intestinal fortitude to defend him as you, yourself, should’ve done.”

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/grapevine-colleyville-texas-school-board-ousts-black-principal-james-whitfield-over-critical-race-theory
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Beloved Black Principal Fired in Ludicrous Critical Race Theory Spat (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2021 OP
He was not fired over CRT. He was fired because he posted a photo with his white wife. LonePirate Sep 2021 #1
You are BigMin28 Sep 2021 #2
I have a problem with contracts and teachers jimfields33 Sep 2021 #3
Really? ShazzieB Sep 2021 #4
Things like this take my breath away Jarqui Sep 2021 #5

LonePirate

(13,386 posts)
1. He was not fired over CRT. He was fired because he posted a photo with his white wife.
Wed Sep 22, 2021, 11:46 PM
Sep 2021

If anything, CRT was a scapegoat here.

jimfields33

(15,462 posts)
3. I have a problem with contracts and teachers
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 01:25 AM
Sep 2021

Florida does this too. Once the contract is done, you can be let go. Thanks but we’re just not renewing the contract. I believe my county does teacher contracts year to year at least to a certain year. I think it’s an awful practice.

Jarqui

(10,110 posts)
5. Things like this take my breath away
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 02:55 AM
Sep 2021

It's been going on for hundreds of years.
It has all been said so many times before.
I'm beyond adding any new words.

I'm so sorry for that Principal and his family.
I'll never understand it.

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