FHSD Public and Private Presentations on Black History Curriculum

Watch supporters of the proposed Black History course in the Francis Howell School District (in St Charles County, MO) present their sanitized sales pitches in public. Then go behind the scenes to see how Dr. King, their consultant (paid $15K by the district), sets them up to write a Critical Theory based history curriculum and hide it from parents. Finally, there are several minutes of questions asked by teachers and counselors in the district (answered by Dr. King) as they attempt to plan how to bypass parent concerns and hide the content of the curriculum in a push for social justice. This video is clipped from the full presentation for the sake of time, but the intent and meaning of speakers' comments has not been changed.

All content in this video was obtained from publicly available sources as well as Sunshine requests through the school district, per Missouri state law. It was edited using Pinnacle Studio 23 Ultimate.

For reference, the proposed Black History curriculum is at https://go.boarddocs.com/mo/fhsdmo/Board.nsf/files/C3LKDX4FDF2B/$file/Black%20History%20Curriculum.pdf, and the related proposed Black Literature curriculum is at https://go.boarddocs.com/mo/fhsdmo/Board.nsf/files/C3KHVF4A5164/$file/Black%20Literature%20Curriculum.pdf.

Additionally, a revealing article by Dr. King where he lays out his beliefs in Critical Race Theory and Critical Pedagogy, as well as how they relate to Marxism, can be found at https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/education/research/units/museum/current_programs/chaange/documents/critical_inquiries.pdf.

To learn about Critical Pedagogy and its relationship to Critical Race Theory, visit https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-pedagogy/. You can then apply when you learn there to the content of these proposed curriculums to see how they are indeed based on that framework.

Some have asked for the uncut Zoom meeting to be made available. Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WSrpSodabmElQBQtF7n3vrGYWNY3rFn7/view?usp=sharing