{"id":304617,"date":"2025-03-06T06:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T06:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=304617"},"modified":"2025-03-07T07:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T07:42:46","slug":"exclusive-red-state-school-district-accused-of-discrimination-over-racially-focused-teacher-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=304617","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Red State School District Accused Of Discrimination Over Racially-Focused Teacher Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leif Le Mahieu \u2013 The Daily Wire March 5, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A parental rights group on Wednesday filed a civil rights complaint against a South Carolina school district over teacher groups that \u201cappear to exclude individuals based on their race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parents Defending Education filed a complaint<\/a> with the Office of Civil Rights for the Department of Education over multiple racially-focused \u201caffinity groups\u201d hosted by the Charleston County School District. The complaint, first shared with The Daily Wire, says that the groups violate federal civil rights laws by limiting participation by race.<\/p>\n

The groups<\/a> in question are the \u201cHispanic Latino Affinity Group\u201d and the \u201cBlack Educator Affinity Group.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCharleston County School District has affinity group programming that is not open to all. The District allows only some teachers to participate in affinity group programming and participation is based on their race,\u201d the complaint reads. \u201cDescriptions of individual affinity groups in the District appear to exclude individuals based on their race.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the district\u2019s website, the Black Educator Affinity Group is \u201ca space for black educators to connect to one another, support one another, and celebrate one another in a safe space.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mission of the Hispanic Latino Affinity Group is to promote \u201cprofessional development and career advancement opportunities\u201d for Hispanic and Latino employees in the district and to \u201ccreate a Hispanic-Latino Affinity committee to support recruitment, retention, and innovation among CCSD Hispanic-Latino employees.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth affinity groups encourage hiring employees based on race and offer professional development opportunities exclusively for black and Hispanic-Latino employees,\u201d the complaint says. \u201cFurthermore, while other Districts ensures affinity group bodies are accessible to all teachers, Charleston County School District evades responsibility for the practices of its affinity groups, stating that \u2018each affinity group establishes its own mission and goal.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The complaint argues that the affinity groups could run afoul of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits federal funding from going toward entities practicing racial discrimination, and the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n

Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neily told The Daily Wire that it would continue to challenge districts like Charleston that promote racially-focused programs and opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s grotesque that districts continue to separate teachers, students, and community members on the basis of skin color, and PDE will continue to file complaints about these types of racially segregated programs until such practices end,\u201d she said. \u201cWhere there\u2019s smoke there\u2019s fire \u2014 and sadly, when a school spends finite time and resources organizing events like this, we often see other discriminatory practices on the books as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January directing all federal funding to be cut off for school districts that promote racial and gender ideology in an effort to go after the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at schools across the country.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Racial discrimination still operates in some U.S. schools. Only now it\u2019s whites that are discriminated against <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304618,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304617\/revisions\/304618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}