NBC News’ Meet the Press Reports: Texas principal fights for his job as race roils school district
In Colleyville, Texas, a principal talks to “Meet the Press Reports” about his suspension over “critical race theory.”
Antonia Hylton, Emily Berk and Benjy Sarlin, NBC News
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COLLEYVILLE, Texas – Not long ago, James Whitfield would be awake at 6 a.m., dressed in a suit and ready to lead a high school of about 2,000 kids.
Now, the closest he can get is dropping off his 9-year-old son at the school across the street. That’s because, since September, Whitfield has been suspended from his job as the first Black principal of Texas’ majority-white Colleyville Heritage High School, in the Fort Worth area.
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Whitfield stands accused by local parents of pushing “critical race theory,” or “CRT,” on students, a buzzword for parents and politicians who feel that efforts to teach America’s difficult history on race, and make classrooms more comfortable with diversity, have become too divisive.