Repeal Policy 7:12-Racial and Educational Equity | Antioch Community District 34
Repeal Policy 7:12-Racial and Educational Equity | Antioch Community District 34
Why this petition matters
We, the undersigned parents of children who attend Antioch Community Consolidated District 34, and community members who share our concerns, are hereby calling for the Antioch Community Consolidated District 34 to repeal Policy 7:12-Racial and Educational Equity.
Antioch Community Consolidated District 34 has been offering its teachers the opportunity to participate in learning opportunities that support discrimination against individuals based on race as well as teaching their students to discriminate against individuals on the basis of race. We demand that Antioch Community Consolidated District 34 stops discriminating against all of its teachers and all of its students on the basis of race through illegal and unconstitutional teacher training, classroom curriculum, and overall policies and procedures.
Antioch Community Consolidated District 34 halt these discriminatory practices which violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act because they treat people differently solely based on the color of their skin.
Since April 20, 2021, Antioch Community Consolidated District 34 has openly declared its commitment “to focusing on race as one of the first visible indicators of identity.” Put into practice, the District demands that nearly every policy, teacher training session, and lesson plan focus on racial identity.
For example, the District offers its teachers the opportunity to participate in “anti-racist” training, which includes participating in the Equity, Anti-Bias/Anti-Racism Personal Development Series. During this series, teachers examined their intersecting identities and positionality, the human socialization process, and the complex relationships to greater society, systems, structures, and institutions. This was a 9-hour series divided into 3-hour sessions. Following each session, teachers were encouraged to engage in additional reading, film watching or other learning exercises.
Formation of an Equity Task Force
Administration attending Equity Academy-"Leading for Equity"
Formation of a Diversity Equity Leadership Team (DELT) of which members must attend multiple workshops.
Creation of an Equity Implementation Plan (EIP)
*All of this done on the taxpayers dime.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declared, “Classifications of citizens solely on the basis of race are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. They threaten to stigmatize individuals by reason of their membership in a racial group and to incite racial hostility.” Antioch Community Consolidated District 34 has sacrificed equality upon the altar of equity, in violation of the constitutional guarantee of equal protection and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Why This Matters
The battleground for the future of the American Republic is in our schools. K-12 schools across our nation are replacing traditional education with race-based programming in the name of “equity.” What seems like a relatively benign cause – also euphemistically called “social justice,” “diversity and inclusion,” “critical race theory,” and “culturally responsive teaching” – is actually code-speak for a much bigger and more dangerous picture: the practice of conditioning individuals to see each other’s skin color first and foremost, then pitting different racial groups against each other.
Antioch Community Consolidated District 34 is ground zero for this race-based programming that illegally and unconstitutionally discriminates against individuals because of their skin color.
Equal protection is a principle “purchased at the price of immeasurable human suffering.” We ask to reinforce this principle firmly etched into our nation.
Decision Makers
- Antioch District 34 School Board