A California father doesn’t want his daughter to be apart of the  “Black Lives Matter” lesson in her ethnic studies class, saying it doesn’t align with his family’s beliefs according to CBS 13.Garren Bratcher isn’t thrilled about his daughter Ella, 14, a freshman at San Juan High School located in North Highlands, California is getting lessons on Black Lives Matter.

“It really made me uncomfortable in class,” Ella told the news station.

“It’s going to create that divide in the classroom and that becomes dangerous to a student,” Bratcher said.

The class is currently being taken online, and Bratcher emailed her teacher asking for an alternate lesson plan. He believes the organization is a radical group.

“The ethics behind them is not something you should be teaching a 14-year-old child. It sounded more like a recruitment tactic, not an educational experience,” he said.

However, the father’s request was denied. The class isn’t required for Ella to graduate, but each freshman at San Juan High School is automatically enrolled in ethnic studies. In an email the family shared with CBS 13, Ella’s teacher says the framework for the class comes from the California Department of Education. Also the teacher would only change a lesson place for a student with an individualized education plan in special education. Tanya Faison, founder of Sacramento’s Black Lives Matter movement told the news station its important for students to learn about black history, including BLM.

“It’s about time our schools are teaching our kids the truth about our history in this country,” she said. San Juan Unified School District says the lesson plan “completely appropriate” and released the following statement:

“The course is taught in alignment with the state framework and this particular unit asks students to consider two relevant questions: “How has race and ethnicity been constructed in the United States and how have they changed over time?” And, “How do race and ethnicity continue to shape the United States contemporary issues?”

The Black Lives Matter movement is a timely and important area of study in processing these two questions. This particular assignment asks students to analyze and summarize a text to identify comparisons and differences between current and past events. Students are not asked to develop an opinion with regard to any particular civil rights movement but instead are graded on the demonstration of their critical analysis skills.”

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