"According to new documents received by Judicial Watch and exclusively provided to Fox News, Maryland’s most populous county, Montgomery County, launched a “psychoeducational lesson” teaching children in schools that there is a “dual pandemic” involving COVID-19 and “systemic racism.” Materials recommended that teachers buy the Ibram X. Kendi book “Antiracist Baby” as “the perfect gift” for “ages baby to age 3.”

The documents come amid intense debate about critical race theory (CRT) in schools, after Virginia Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin won the 2021 governor’s race on a platform banning CRT. Many parents have opposed CRT – a framework that involves deconstructing aspects of society to discover systemic racism beneath the surface – as divisive and racist.

“This material details how extremist race politics and CRT are being used to target children for political ends,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement on the documents. “Politics should immediately be removed from the curriculum of Montgomery County Schools. These CRT-laden teachings have no place in any American classroom.”

"A glossary slide for secondary schools claims that “Systems of Oppression identifies inequity by calling attention to the historical and organized patterns of mistreatment. In the United States systems of oppression (like systemic racism) are woven into the very foundation of American culture, society, and laws.”

One slide asks, “Can Students opt-out [of the psychoeducational lesson]?” One bullet point reads, “Students cannot opt-out of the lessons.” However, the slide notes that parents may request “an alternative method” for their children “due to mental health concerns.”

A PowerPoint presentation titled “3rd through 5th Grade Psychoeducational Lesson” includes a slide labeled “COVID-19 and Social Justice,” which claims that “People in African American and Latinx communities have been more likely to get sick from COVID-19 because of how racism and unfairness impacts their lives” (emphasis original).

Judicial Watch has obtained other records from MCPS, including documents related to the school district’s “Anti-racist system audit” and CRT classes.

Thomas Pyle Middle School’s social justice class taught students that the phrase “Make America Great Again” was an example of “covert white supremacy.”

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