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A legal assault against woke educational insanity led by a modern patriot named Doug Turpin has just scored a significant win.<\/p>

Read more Could Sandy Posey sing \u2018Born a Woman\u2019 today?<\/a><\/p>\n

Doug and Nicole Turpin, founders of Coalition for Liberty, enrolled their children at Charlotte Latin believing they were buying a traditional, rigorous, apolitical education at one of the state\u2019s most prestigious private schools.\u00a0\u00a0Then came the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n

After George Floyd overdosed on fentanyl, prompting propagandistic cries of \u201cdefund the police,\u201d the school sent parents a letter that the Turpins believed signaled a clear move \u201ctoward a curriculum, culture, and focus associated with a political agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

That same month, Latin began distributing a video series titled \u201cConversations about Race.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0On the Fourth of July, Headmaster Charles Baldecchi sent a letter reflecting on a high school prank from his youth that he now described as \u201chorrific\u201d when viewed \u201cin today\u2019s lens.\u201d<\/p>\n

The school\u2019s leftist charge accelerated.\u00a0\u00a0Curriculum, reading materials, and classroom policies shifted in ways the Turpins and other parents saw as the adoption of an anti-American political agenda.\u00a0\u00a0According to the plaintiffs\u2019 complaint, the school taught their sixth-grade child polarizing concepts such as \u201cRepublicans are white supremacists.\u201d<\/p>\n

The school required young students to read disgusting, age-inappropriate books on sexuality and gender identity.\u00a0\u00a0The school sold the parents on a classical education but switched to an intense focus on \u201cdiversity, inclusion, equity\u201d and progressive ideology at one of the state\u2019s most prestigious private schools.<\/p>\n

Concerned parents, including the Turpins, formed a group called Refocus Latin.\u00a0\u00a0After being promised that there would be no retaliation against them or their children, they presented a PowerPoint to the school\u2019s trustees outlining their objections.\u00a0\u00a0The board listened, thanked them, and then cut off further dialogue.<\/p>\n

Behind the scenes, the headmaster allegedly told faculty and administrators that the presentation was \u201can attack on our community with the intention of ripping its fabric apart\u201d and accused the parents of acting in \u201cbad faith.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Faculty were instructed not to discuss curriculum or culture concerns with parents and to refer them instead to the administration.<\/p>\n

The Turpins later raised specific concerns about one teacher\u2019s COVID masking policy and what they described as \u201cindoctrination on progressive ideology.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Again they sought \u2014 and received \u2014 assurances of no retaliation.\u00a0\u00a0In an email, the school stated, \u201cOur teachers do not retaliate and there will be no blowback, I assure you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Days later, during an in-person meeting, the head of school informed Doug Turpin that the family\u2019s children were being disenrolled.\u00a0\u00a0The stated reason: irreconcilable ideological differences over the school\u2019s diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives in enrollment and hiring.\u00a0\u00a0Incredibly, the children were required to leave that same day.<\/p>

Read more The Exit From Reality Known As La-La Land<\/a><\/p>\n

Charlotte Latin had surrendered to the left-wing gods of political correctness and wokism.\u00a0\u00a0Rather than defending classical education, open inquiry, and the right of parents to raise respectful questions about curriculum, the school treated dissenting parents as the problem.\u00a0\u00a0It cited the fine print of an enrollment contract to silence them and then, according to the complaint, made false statements about the parents\u2019 presentation \u2014 claiming that it contained racist assertions that minority students and faculty \u201chave not earned their positions\u201d \u2014 that the Turpins say damaged their reputations.<\/p>\n

Doug Turpin could have withdrawn his children and moved on.\u00a0\u00a0Instead, he chose the harder, nobler road, putting his resources, time, and reputation on the line so that other parents \u2014 those without the means \u2014 might one day have a fighting chance when a private school decides to ram left-wing ideological conformity down their throats.<\/p>\n

This past Friday,\u00a0\u00a0the North Carolina Supreme Court refused to let prestigious Charlotte Latin School bury a lawsuit brought by parents who dared to question the school\u2019s sharp leftward turn.\u00a0\u00a0In a 5-2 decision written by Justice Richard Dietz and joined by Chief Justice Paul Newby and Justices Phil Berger, Jr.; Tamara Barringer; and Trey Allen, the Court reversed key parts of lower-court rulings that had thrown out the Turpins\u2019 claims.\u00a0\u00a0The case allows the family to pursue claims for breach of contract, fraud, unfair and deceptive trade practices, and defamation.<\/p>\n

The trial judge who dismissed most of the case was registered \u201cindependent,\u201d and the Court of Appeals panel that affirmed that dismissal was Democrat.\u00a0\u00a0The five justices who reversed them and kept the parents\u2019 claims alive are Republicans.\u00a0\u00a0Parents across North Carolina should remember that the next time they hear someone claim that \u201cjudges just apply the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thanks to the North Carolina Supreme Court, Charlotte Latin is about to get fully exposed in public for its radicalism, and for displaying offensive \u201cartwork\u201d disrespectful to Christianity on its walls, with no rulings from Democrat judges to help hide its communistic shenanigans.\u00a0\u00a0In one instance, \u201cartwork\u201d that suddenly began to appear in the school pictured Jesus with his throat cut and black blood flowing out from his body with the words \u201cGod is Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

This sort of anti-Christian, anti-Western, and anti-American nonsense is not what the parents bargained for when they plopped down considerable dollars of tuition money for a classical education to focus on calculus, logic, and Western literature.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the book The Naked Communist<\/em>, published in 1958, former FBI agent W. Cleon Skousen warned of 45 areas of American society that leftists would infiltrate to undermine the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution and destroy our constitutional republic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And what sat atop the list of battlegrounds for leftist conquest?\u00a0\u00a0The American educational system \u2014 not just in public schools, but also, perhaps even more, the most private and expensive education that money can buy.<\/p>\n

Doug Turpin recognized the leftist power play to transform Latin into an indoctrination factory, and has done his part to stop it.\u00a0\u00a0The North Carolina Supreme Court has now done its part.<\/p>

Read more America\u2019s Stranger Problem<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s time for the rest of us to join the battle.<\/p>\n

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