The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) has announced it is challenging a scholarship program in the Beloit, Wisconsin, school district for being racist and discriminatory.
This from wndnewscenter.org.
WILL associate counsel Cara Tolliver explained:
The district’s race-based GYO program is patently unconstitutional and illegal under decades-old United States Supreme Court precedent and other laws.
Citizens ought to demand more from their elected government officials—even more so for those charged with the care and education of children.
Given the ongoing teacher shortage, the district should be welcoming all qualified scholarship candidates, not foreclosing teaching incentives on the irrelevant and unlawful basis of a human being’s skin pigmentation or ethnic make-up.
At issue, WILL reported:
[T]he district’s ‘Grow Your Own Multicultural Teacher Scholarship Program.’
According to numerous publicly available documents and other materials:
[T]he district solicits contributions from employees and board members to fund racially discriminatory teaching scholarships for students and staff.
GYO scholars receive up to $20,000 ($5,000 per year for four years) in addition to mentoring services.
But, of course, the program has a racist agenda.
WILL explained:
The district uses the scholarships to train and recruit new ‘teacher[s] who look like’ certain students, and so the program extends only to members of certain racial minority groups preferred by the district.
WILL warned of further action if the district insists on maintaining this unlawful program.
The district’s race-based GYO program violates numerous anti-discrimination prohibitions, including the United States Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The report explained the scholarship scheme is part of the district’s commitment:
[T]o ensure a diverse professional teaching workforce so that students can ‘see and be taught by a teacher who looks like them.’
The program’s privileged characteristics are “Black/African American,” “Native American/Alaskan,” “Asian,” and “Hispanic/Latinx.”
The legal team documented further that the school uses public resources, time, and employees in running the program.
Further,
[T]he district solicits funding from its employees and Board members through direct payroll deductions and other available options and has offered incentives for paid-time-off to staff members who donate to the GYO fund.
Final thoughts: I’m thinking this bleeding-heart liberal initiative is unconstitutional in more ways than one.
There ought to be a very stiff financial penalty, perhaps disbarment, and even a conviction and time incarcerated for law makers who abuse their oaths of office and push unconstitutional laws upon We the People.
