(Headline USA) In the national temper tantrum that followed the 2020 overdose death of George Floyd, about 2,000 protesters took to the streets in a St. Louis suburb and screeched demands that Francis Howell School District adopt radical left-wing racialist policies.
The school board responded with a resolution using the language of CRT.
Now the board, led by new conservative board members elected since last year, has revoked that woke resolution and copies of it will be removed from school buildings.
The board’s decision follows a national awakening of the conservative silent majority that began with backlash against the tyranny enacted on behalf of the COVID-19 ‘emergency.’
School board elections have been an epicenter for this awakening. Citizens have elected candidates promising to remove CRT and gender propaganda from schools, remove pornographic books and to ban boys from competing in girls sports.
The Francis Howell district is among Missouri’s largest, with 17,000 students, about 87% of whom are white. The vote rescinded the woke resolution 75 days after “a majority of current Board of Education members were not signatories to the resolution or did not otherwise vote to adopt the resolution.”
The board’s vice president, Randy Cook, said phrases in the resolution such as “systemic racism” aren’t defined and mean different things to different people.
Since the resolution was adopted, the makeup of the board has flipped. Just two board members remain from 2020. Five new conservative members were elected in April 2022 and April 2023.
Cook, who was elected in 2022 and sponsored the revocation, said there is no plan to adopt an alternative resolution.
“In my opinion, the school board doesn’t need to be in the business of dividing the community,” Cook said. “We just need to stick to the business of educating students here and stay out of the national politics.”
Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press
