It's reported by the Daily Caller that this began with a complaint filed with the Department of Education's civil rights division.
The complaint said that Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) failed to discipline a teacher who "threatened to 'go all Nazi' on his students and personally directed Nazi salutes toward a Jewish student,” per the Education Department.
The allegations further says BCPS allowed students to harass Jewish students. It says they performed Nazi salutes on the playground, drew Nazi graffiti on desks and in books, and told Jewish students that "all Jews should die." They further allege that students said to fellow Jewish students "we should call Hamas and have them come here."
Jeffrey Trimbath, the president of the Maryland Family Institute, says this does not surprise him for a number of reasons.
"First, if you look at the teacher in question, he literally has a Ph.D. in critical race theory. So here you have a 9th grade teacher in a public high school who's been trained in social justice and critical race theory.” Trimbath says. “What a person like that has doing teaching children, I'm not sure, but he has been thoroughly trained in cultural Marxism, and that is his worldview.”
He explains that he was thoroughly trained in cultural Marxism, making that his worldview, and he does not know why this person is teaching children.
“If you're trained in that, you see the world through a lens of oppressors and oppressed, and in that worldview, the state of Israel is always a colonial oppressor, and the residents of Gaza are always the oppressed,” Trimbath informs.
He clarifies that anti-Semitism is not a bad thing in this worldview.
“It is actually, in that worldview, a good thing that you have anti-Semitism in a place like Baltimore or anywhere else because you are righting perceived grave injustices being done to the oppressed class there," says Trimbath.
He said it is a “sick and twisted ideology” that has no place in Maryland Public Schools, but “unfortunately,” there are so many teachers who have been trained this way.
Trimbath added this is not the first time Maryland has been chastised for not respecting the religious rights of parents.
"We learned from the Mahmoud case from two months ago that Montgomery County has been doing this as well and for many of the same reasons. They are so committed to a Marxist ideology of the world that they're all too ready to throw the 1st Amendment overboard and not respect the rights of parents and students," Trimbath says.
Trimbath pointed out this is happening at a time when BCPS have 'some of the worst test results with regard to academic proficiency' in reading, math, and basic, fundamental subjects.
