Dr. Jeff Bearden

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – The Forsyth County Board of Education will hold two called meetings prior to the regular monthly meeting on Tuesday June 15. At 5 p.m., the Board will meet to discuss ratification of a property sale, followed at 5:30 p.m. by a public hearing on the FY 2022 budget.

Several key items appear on the regular meeting agenda at 6p.m., including approval of the FY 2022 budget and the proposed SPLOST 6 project list.

But, it is the Public Participation portion of that meeting that is expected to draw another standing-room-only crowd when angry opponents of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) strategic plan to demand it be removed from Forsyth County Schools.

Opponents say that DEI is merely a Trojan horse that hides Critical Race Theory (CRT), an ideology that judges people by the color of their skin and not the content of their character and segregates them into two groups – white people are the oppressors and blacks are the oppressed.

Superintendent Dr. Jeff Bearden says CRT is not being taught in Forsyth County Schools.