Take it from a high schooler who's actually learned about CRT: Adults need to chill out

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/14/high-school-critical-race-theory-message-to-protesters/

No paywall
https://archive.fo/CRUR4

As a Black high school junior, I have to say: The backlash I’ve seen against the teaching of critical race theory is unbelievable.

In most schools, as has been well established, critical race theory — an approach to analyzing the intersection of race, history and the law, generally reserved for higher education — isn’t even being taught. And yet, since January 2021, according to Education Week, more than 30 states “have introduced bills or taken other steps that would restrict teaching critical race theory or limit how teachers can discuss racism and sexism” in K-12 schools.

These policies are no joke.

One Tennessee high school teacher, Matthew Hawn, lost his job after showing his students a four-minute video of a poet performing a piece about White privilege. In Texas, James Whitfield was pushed out of his job as a high school principal after accusations that he was promoting CRT.

Opponents of CRT claim that this academic lens is divisive, anti-White and anti-American. Many have claimed that its teachings are a means of forcing a political agenda onto children in lieu of focusing on subjects deemed more educational.

*snip*

[crickets]

1. Strong, eloquent letter. Brava, Christiane Calixte. K&R

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R