Recently a Change.org petition was created which asserted that all residents of the Babcock Ranch community in Florida have banded together to oppose the teaching of Critical Race Theory at the Babcock Ranch Neighborhood School, going so far as to call for the removal of the Principal. 

We are creating this petition to highlight and clarify that not ALL residents of the Babcock Ranch community oppose the teaching of CRT and Principal Treece's leadership. Though we acknowledge that CRT is a controversial topic, we also acknowledge that (like Germany with the holocaust) we Americans, as people and as an institution, need to examine our history and begin to teach our children all aspects of that history from every viewpoint so as to not continue making the same mistakes we have made, as a country and a people, for many generations.

It is easy to complain and make a stink about the issues with CRT and how you disagree with the thought process when you live in a community like Babcock Ranch with home prices averaging in the $400k range in a county that is 90.6% "white alone" according to Census.gov (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/charlottecountyflorida 

We, as a group of concerned parents and residents, acknowledge our privilege in our current situation. We also acknowledge that we as adults were not as educated on the issues of race in our country as we wish we had been as children. We firmly believe that giving our children a factual account of our Nation's history is the only logical and just thing to do, as Americans and the recipients of so much privilege.

We are not here to push a political agenda either way. We want our children to be taught the whole story; not the version that made Christopher Columbus a hero, but the hard, tough, dirty and sometimes uncomfortable truth. 

To paraphrase the great Dax Randall Shepard, 'Life is hard and it is going to suck, but the color of your skin shouldn't be the reason why'.