An education board member of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District—which banned Critical Race Theory (CRT) in early April—said it is going to be a lengthy battle for the district to make its schools CRT-free.
Board Member Shawn Youngblood told The Epoch Times the ban is a part of the initial steps to eliminate CRT, which he described as peeling back layers of an onion.
“We’re starting with one layer and will go to another,” he said.
The board is taking steps to change what is already in place, Youngblood said, but it has been difficult. He said the board’s job now is to define how the ban looks when there are already curriculums with CRT in schools that they don’t have control over….