A disabled resident’s vehicle was temporarily removed from district property during the Fort Worth Independent School District’s “Racial Equity Committee” meeting on Thursday after he attempted to park in a handicapped spot in a parking lot of the school hosting the meeting.
The “Racial Equity Committee” of a school district has prevented public attendance at its meetings for the first time since the body was established in 2016.
There will not be a quorum of trustees present at the REC meetings, so it won’t be bound by board policy or the Texas Open Meetings Act. CBS DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth) reports the REC will not hold public meetings and not announce meeting times or locations.
“There are 4 of the current 8 locally elected trustees from the school board on the racial equity committee,” FWISD mother Lexi Lovett told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “That may or may not be a quorum but currently it’s 50% of the board who will most likely vote on whatever the REC suggests.”
“Over the last couple of years the words accountability and responsibility have been used and have been hot topics,” she added. “It’s not one sided. FWISD needs to realize this.”
When the local resident requested to attend REC meetings, a school official asked whether his car was broken down. After explaining his handicap, he asked if he could attend the meeting again.
Because the meetings were private, he was not allowed to attend, according to the school official. Then, she instructed him to move his vehicle within “a few minutes”.
The DCNF interviewed activist Carlos Turcios, who spent four years on FWISD’s REC and who is now fighting against CRT (Critical Race Theory) in the district, about his experiences. he was alarmed by the lack of transparency FWISD and its REC have shown the public.
“If they are preaching the ‘truth’ why are they afraid to be public?” he said. “Parents have the right to know what’s happening.”
CRT contends that America is fundamentally racist, yet it teaches people to judge people and social interactions according to their race.
Those who adhere to it believe that “antiracism” means the end of merit, the pursuit of the objective truth, and the implementation of policies that are based on race. All of these, of course, seem to discriminate heavily against whites.
