Prairie State Wire

Naperville parent Shannon Adcock is seeking all the help she can find in the fight against Critical Race Theory.

Adcock and company recently launched the website AwakeIL.com as a way to share information with others that are likewise opposed to the teachings becoming part of the curriculum in more classrooms across the state.

The group has soldiered on despite Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently declaring those in opposition are “right-wing,” adding “They’re going to grab on to anything that they can use a few words, put it together and make it sound like it’s an attack on white people, then they’re going to make it an issue,” Bishop on Air reported.

Adcock told The Center Square she became aware of the teachings while unsuccessfully running for a seat on the school board. She said the more she learned about it, the more she knew it was all wrong for Naperville schools.

“You are having students segregated by their color, by their sexuality, by their any number of filters that an activist teacher can choose and say ‘so because of your skin color you are a problem, because of your skin color you will never make it in life, because of this intangible systemic problem in one of the greatest countries in the world,’ and to me, it’s to me extremely anti-Americanism, it’s anti-child and I believe it to be child abuse,” The Center Square reported.

In nearby Evanston, a grade school teacher recently formally filed suit in federal court charging that the policies are segregating and denigrating white teachers and students, casting them as inherently racist and privileged.

“Those downplaying concerns are “full of it,” Adcock told The Center Square. “When you have the teachers union, the national teachers union, saying that they want this taught and they will defend in court teachers who are teaching it, this is ideological war right now.”

Several states, including Texas and Florida, have prohibited such teachings.