A single mother of a 13-year-old biracial boy is suing his Virginia school district over its anti-racism curriculum which she claims changed her son to the point where he stopped doing chores.
Melissa Riley, from Charlottesville told Fox News that she never had any issue with her son until the Albemarle School District introduced an ‘anti-racism’ program last year.
“He’s seeing himself just as a Black man. He’s seeing things that don’t go his way as racism. And he is finding safety in numbers now,” Riley said.
Things have gotten so bad now, according to Riley, that her son is refusing to do chores.
“I asked him to clean the house and he said ‘racism,” she said. “They have totally changed his perspective. They have put him in a box.”
The Crozete Gazette reported that the curriculum, ‘Courageous Conversations About Race’ [CCAR], was launched in May last year and covers four units on identity, community, bias, discrimination, and social justice, all emphasizing anti-racism.
Riley and her son are plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in December by the conservative legal firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) against the Albemarle County School Board over its program. The ADF argued that the district’s anti-racism policy violates Virginia’s constitution and parental rights, according to the New York Post.
Albemarle Circuit Judge Claude Worrell II dismissed the case last month saying that there is “nothing inherently evil or wrong” with the curriculum.
