William Clark is a senior at Democracy Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, where he was forced to take a course on critical race theory. He ultimately failed the class for refusing to confess his supposed “white dominance” — a concerning requirement to place upon any student, particularly one who is biracial — and “unlearn” Christian principles.
His mother, Gabrielle, has since filed a lawsuit against the school, seeking “monetary damages, including compensatory and punitive damages, for the damage done to William Clark’s future academic and professional prospects, and for the defendants’ deliberate and protracted harassment, emotional abuse, and violation of plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.”
William was mandated to take a “Sociology of Change” class, his mom said.
The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism explained that, in the course, the teenager “was asked to publicly reveal his race, gender, religious, and sexual identities, and then attach derogatory labels to those identities.” Students in the class were then “asked to ‘undo and unlearn’ their beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that stem from oppression.”
“William was understandably reluctant to label himself as ‘privileged’ or an ‘oppressor,’” FAIR’s profile of the case stated. “While William is the only student in the class who appears to be white — he has light skin and green eyes — he is, in fact, mixed race.”
William objected to the exercise and was, in return, given a failing grade.
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The Clarks’ court filing claims Gabrielle is now “suffering from the shock, anxiety, and guilt associated with having entrusted her son to adult custodians who have set upon ‘unlearning’ the Judeo-Christian values she imparted to her son.”
Bari Weiss, a journalist concerned about the destructive nature of critical theory as well as a member of the board of advisors for FAIR, is using her Twitter account to share the Clarks’ story.
“William is a biracial teenager in Nevada,” Weiss wrote. “He lives in transitional housing with his mother, Gabrielle, who is black and disabled. William works at a local fast food restaurant to support his mother and two siblings. His father died when he was young.”
“William Clark is not privileged by any stretch of the imagination,” she continued. “Quite the opposite. But that’s now how his school, a public charter in Las Vegas, sees it.”
During an appearance this week on Fox News, Gabrielle explained her bewilderment when she learned the school was attempting to force her son to disclose his “protected identities,” such as his ethnicity and religious beliefs.
“You can’t do that at a job,” she said. “You shouldn’t be able to do it at a school. It put a target on my son’s back. If somebody didn’t like what he had to say, then that would have put him in danger, and I think that was a grievous wrong.”
A spokesperson for the school told Daily Mail the academy does not comment on ongoing litigation, but offered the following statement, anyway: “Our curriculum teaches students about American democracy and movements for social change throughout our history. We strongly disagree with how the curriculum has been characterized in this filing.”
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