A teacher who exposed her school district’s “radicalized” Critical Race Theory (CRT) curriculum alleges she has faced “escalating retaliation” and will be the subject of a “pre-disciplinary administrative hearing” on Wednesday.
Ramona Bessinger, the Providence, Rhode Island, English teacher who described in July how her school district’s “radicalized curriculum” actually “created racial tensions among students and staff where none existed before,” tweeted the notice she received for her “pre-disciplinary administrative hearing.”
Bessinger said the new CRT program, based on the Marxist cultural ideology, was “the most racially divisive, hateful, and in large part, historically inaccurate curriculums I have ever seen in my teaching career.”
The veteran teacher reported at Legal Insurrection on October 3 that, when she received her new teaching assignments for the 2021-2022 academic year, she discovered she was “pulled” from teaching one of her English classes. She wrote she was assigned, instead, to teach “using CNN news sources, as well as Time for Kids, in a course structured to rely on racialized articles that separate children by the color of their skin.”