Children at an elementary school in San Antonio, Texas, were reportedly segregated by hair color and shown a Spike Lee film that included graphic autopsy photos.
News 4 San Antonio spoke to parents who reportedly “say they want their children to learn about racism and civil rights,” but believe that Northside Independent School District “went too far with the segregation experiment and by making children watch a documentary it admits was not age appropriate.”
The outlet interviewed Mike and Brandi Lininger — parents whose 10-year-old daughter was “was confused and hurt by a classroom experiment in January at Leon Springs Elementary,” according to the report.
“All of the dark-haired kids, the brown- and black-haired kids, were treated as the privileged ones and the blonde-haired and the redhead kids were the ones treated not so nicely,” Brandi Lininger explained. The couple said teachers told students children in the fair-haired group were less intelligent. The group was intentionally given a game with pieces missing so they could not play and were later forced to clean up after their classmates.
“She was hurt, her friends, and she named to the principal and to district officials, names of her friends that were crying,” Brandi Lininger continued.
Meanwhile, teachers played a Spike Lee documentary called “4 Little Girls” — which depicts the 1963 bombing of an Alabama church — to fifth graders. The movie contains autopsy photos of the girls’ bodies. Although the teacher claims she skipped the more graphic portions of the documentary, Mike Lininger said that his daughter was indeed exposed to the images: “The things that she said that she skipped over, my daughter was able to describe to us to a ‘T.’ So that night our daughter was unable to go to sleep in our own room; she was scared.”
The school denied News 4 San Antonio’s request for an interview, but confirmed that “the activity and video in question were part of a larger fifth-grade project-based lesson around the inequity of segregation” — adding that although “the campus did receive positive feedback from several parents,” administrators “recognize the parent’s concerns and agree that the activity and video are not age-appropriate and will not be used again.”
“They send us notes and newsletters about everything else. Your child is going to see The Polar Express and it’s pajama day on Friday before winter break, and we get no notice that they’re going to do a social experiment on segregation,” Brandi Lininger noted to the outlet.
News 4 San Antonio confirmed the Lininger family’s account with another Leon Springs parent, who did not wish to be identified.
The rising popularity of left-wing instruction in public schools — especially Critical Race Theory (CRT) — have motivated many parents to seek new educational opportunities for their children. From March 2020 to September 2020 alone, homeschooling rates across the United States grew between 5.4% and 11%.
Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak — who has led efforts to uncover the rise of Critical Race Theory in America’s schools — recently published a book entitled Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education. The research for the book included submitting more than 100 Freedom of Information Act requests and threatens to do for numerous areas of the country what his reporting on a rape in Loudoun County, Virginia, did there.