![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a tweet on Thursday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, declared the state’s intention to support parents who complain to their school boards about critical race theory under the new law. But I was confident that I was the right person to create this book, for the simple reason that I had experienced many of the same things my protagonist Jordan Banks had,” Mr. “When I first set out to write and illustrate ‘New Kid,’ I knew there would be giant hurdles to overcome. Craft, an award-winning author and syndicated cartoonist, wrote in a statement on his website Wednesday that the books drew inspiration from his own experiences growing up as an African-American in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. The books in question, “New Kid” and a sequel titled “Class Act,” describe the fictional experiences of minority students making friends at a mostly-White private school. “The books don’t come out and say, ‘We want White children to feel like oppressors,’ but that is absolutely what they will do,” Bonnie Anderson told the station. One mother who signed the petition told KPRC that the books were “inappropriate instructional material” for her three children at a taxpayer-funded school. ![]()
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