GET ME REWRITE: Upset white parents in rural Iowa school district want to scrub lessons with LBGTQ, 'critical race theory'

 

Demographics:  U.S. Census QuickFacts, U.S. News and World Report

Headline:  Des Moines Register, 11/20/2022

This largely white Iowa town where baseball legend Bob Feller learned his fastball has become the latest battlefront in America's culture war over race and sexual identity. 

Armed with a new Iowa law aimed at giving families more control over what their children are learning in public schools, more than 130 townspeople have signed a petition seeking to have the Van Meter Community School District remove lesson plans they say promote a liberal political agenda. 

Their "Back to Basics: Preserving The Integrity of Van Meter Schools" petition accuses teachers and administrators of using a social-emotional learning curriculum laced with "gender ideology" and "divisive critical race ideology." And it calls for their children to receive a "nonpolitical" education devoid of sexual and sexually graphic content.

Cobbled together with no thought given to teacher recruitment.