A Virginia school district has spent more than $34,000 on Critical Race Theory coaching for its staff despite insisting it has no plans to teach the curriculum to students, according to newly-released documents.
An invoice, obtained by a parent through a freedom of information request and first reported by Fox News, reveals Loudoun County School Public Schools paid out $34,167 to equity consulting firm The Equity Collaborative in June 2020.
The payment was for coaching between the months of May and June that year, including 25 hours worth of coaching support for the county's director of equity which alone cost more than $15,000.
The newly-obtained documents also include some of the coaching material used in the sessions such as a 'motivational framework for culturally responsive teaching' which critics point out focuses only on African American and Latino students and excludes children of all other ethnicities.
The revelation comes as Loudoun County has found itself at the center of controversy in recent months, with parents in what is America's wealthiest suburb going to war with the school boars over its anti-racist curriculum.
A Virginia school district has spent more than $34,000 on Critical Race Theory coaching for its staff despite insisting it has no plans to teach the curriculum to students. An invoice obtained by a parent through a freedom of information request above
The District Administrative Offices for Loudoun County Public Schools which paid out $34,167 to equity consulting firm The Equity Collaborative in June 2020
One parent with children in the district told Fox the documents show 'assumptions about everybody and their life situation [are] based on race'.
Ian Prior, who is also executive director of Fight For Schools - a group of Loudoun County parents campaigning to recall six out of nine of the school board, highlighted several points.
One of the documents, titled 'Equity, race and learning support: What is cultural competence?', focuses on coaching the staff to be 'culturally competent.'
'The culturally competent professional acknowledges and is aware of his or her own racist, sexist, heterosexist, or other detrimental attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and feelings,' it reads.
The document also lists ways to combat racism with examples including: 'educate co-workers and close friends about racism and act as a role model, take risks and question the White power structure.'
'Engage in conversations around race and social justice issues with your students and colleagues,' one of the other points reads.
One of the documents, titled 'Equity, race and learning support: What is cultural competence?', focuses on coaching the staff to be 'culturally competent' (pictured)
In the framework, Prior highlighted a section on 'establishing inclusion' and 'developing a positive attitude' focusing on the inclusion of African American and Latino students.
Another parent Shawntel Cooper told Fox 'every culture is excluded except for Black Americans and Latino Americans.'
The framework also features a table comparing 'White Individualism' with 'Color Group Collectivism.'
'Fostering independence and individual achievement, promotes self-expression, individual thinking, personal choice and associated with private property' all fall under the White Individualism side.
This compares to 'fostering interdependence and group success, promotes adherence to norms, respect for authority, group consensus and is associated with shared property' on the Color Group Collectivism side.
There is also a 'motivational framework for culturally responsive teaching' which critics point out focuses only on African American and Latino students and excludes children of all other ethnicities (above)
Cooper, who is African
