Three conservative candidates for Klein ISD (KISD) school board ran in 2021 to tackle problems with critical race theory (CRT) and masking requirements for children. The Amigos on AM700 interviewed Kristin Cobb and Natalie Pilkinton. Matt Skaggs also ran as a conservative candidate for KISD in 2021.
Kristin Cobb highlights several examples of CRT in KISD:
- KISD school board unanimously passed an equity resolution.
- KISD teacher training focused on race and used the White Fragility book for training.
- KISD student grade competency is at 36% in writing, 42% in math, an 50% in reading, but the school board is focused on CRT training.
What’s the general tone inside the KISD school board? Some parents are upset about cultural responsiveness training. KISD is inserting CRT in resolutions and teacher training. However, the KISD school board is claiming there is not and will never be CRT in KISD.
What are specific examples of CRT that students have received? Kristin Cobb’s child received week long assignments each in privilege, systemic racism, and racial profiling for CRT indoctrination.
Per The Amigos, Harris County also has known CRT issues in HISD, Aldine, CFISD, Spring Branch ISD, Katy ISD.
What are buzzwords that CRT proponents use without stating forthrightly they are using CRT? White fragility, systemic racism, intersectionality, equity, and privilege.
Natalie Pilkinton ran to protect parental rights to maintain parental rights over health, masks, and vaccines. Natalie observed the CRT cultural response training with 88 pages of CRT training for teachers which recommended books including White Fragility by Robin DeAngelo. Natalie summarizes the main premise of White Fragility: “Every white person is racist and every black person is held down by systemic racism. CRT is a hopeless ideology.”
The 1619 Project is one effort by CRT-proponents to change American school curriculums to promote CRT and Marxist ideology. Civil rights veteran Bob Woodson who co-created 1776 Unites explains the 1619 project based on CRT, “The apparent message of the 1619 Project, Woodson said, is “that America should be defined as a racist society where all whites are culpable and guilty of having privilege and therefore should be punished and all blacks are victims that should be compensated,” a conclusion that he called “a very corrosive and dangerous challenge to these traditional values.”
See more details about the KISD equity resolution and pro-CRT stance at the School Board Watchlist.
No one knows the hearts and intentions of our current KISD school board members or how they may be misinformed. We only know that the KISD school board has made resolutions and enforced training that support CRT, and this CRT ideology is undermining the public school mission to educate children with useful skills and unifying values to develop into good citizens. We only hope parents respond responsibly to vote for school board members that support their values.
More details to come…in The Klein ISD Files.
