Critical Race Theory Is Proving To Be The Defining Issue That Is Sweeping GOP Into Office

Written By BlabberBuzz | Sunday, 10 April 2022 05:15 AM
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The Waukesha, Wisconsin, school board election has ended, with all three Republican-backed candidates taking the three open seats on the board, following the recent debate around the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT).

The three Conservative candidates, Karrie Kozlowski, Mark Borowski, and Marquell Moorer, won the seats after getting the most votes on Tuesday evening.

The Republican Party of Waukesha County openly backed the new school board members.

Sarah Harrison, who finished fourth in the race, expressed her concerns about the winners, telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that they “followed national Republican speaking points designed to stir fear in voters.”

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The GOP win comes after months of controversy regarding CRT, an academic construct occasionally taught in schools that encourages students to think about systemic racism and generational responsibility passed down from the past to the present.

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Parents and lawmakers around the country have been fighting to ban CRT from schools and gain control of their children’s education.

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In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a parental rights bill that bans teachers from giving classroom instruction on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity” in kindergarten through third grade.

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Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed an executive order Tuesday geared toward the banning of CRT in schools.

“Political indoctrination has no place in our classrooms,” she continued, “our children will not be taught that they are racists or that they are victims,” the governor said in a statement.

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Voting was heavy, though the percentage of voter turnout for the different jurisdictions wasn’t immediately available late Tuesday from Waukesha County.

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The partisan nature of this race — in which Borowski, Kozlowski, and Moorer were each endorsed and whose campaigns were financially supported by the Republican Party of Waukesha County — became a focal point in the three months following the January candidate filing deadline.

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Following the primary, incumbents Baumgart and Deets, and newcomer Harrison, criticized those candidates for campaigning on national Republican talking points, particularly the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools.

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But the Republican-backed candidates argued their concerns were about falling academic performances in local schools and countered that the local school board has lagged under a liberal bias out of touch with parent concerns.

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Regardless, the result was that the three unendorsed candidates announced they were running as a “slate” of candidates in uniform opposition to the Republican-backed candidates.

Harrison noted that effort, which proved unsuccessful. “I am proud of the campaign that I ran for Waukesha School Board, alongside fellow candidates Greg Deets and Bill Baumgart,” Harrison said. “I am humbled and grateful for the outpouring of community support.”

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