A concerned Rhode Island mother said she could face legal action for attempting to gather information on critical race theory material that was being taught at her daughter’s school.
“I wanted to speak out because I have to fight for my daughter’s education, and I’m in a special position. I don’t have a job to lose because I’m a stay-at-home mom. My daughter is just starting out in school, so, you know, if I have to send her to private school, I will,” Nicole Solas said during a Wednesday interview with Fox & Friends.
“And I think it’s really important for parents to start asking more questions because the more parents that ask more questions, the harder it will be for schools to retaliate against a lot of parents,” Solas added.
Solas said she initially sought information about the school’s gender theory and anti-racism curriculum when she enrolled her daughter in the school and was told by the principal that the school doesn’t refer to “kids as boys and girls.”
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“I was also told that they refrain from using gender terminology in general. In terms of anti-racism, I was told that kids in kindergarten are asked what could have been done differently at Thanksgiving, and this struck me as a way to shame children for their American heritage,” Solas said.
Solas has faced roadblocks in her quest to see the curriculum for herself, being told by the school to submit a public records request.
But the information she received via the request did not include “any evidence of gender theory or anti-racism,” something she said she knew was being taught to students.
“I have a lot of questions I’m asking them. I wish that my questions would have been answered without having to do it this way. But they told me to do it with their own questions. They’re teaching something that they’re trying to hide from you. … They’re being opaque about it,” Solas said.
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Solas said she now faces the prospect of legal action, with the school board meeting to consider whether to file a lawsuit in an effort to challenge her public records request.
The story comes as critical race theory curriculum has become a controversial subject across the country, with many jurisdictions moving to ban the teaching of the theory over concerns that it is racist and anti-American.
