This cracks me up because it never has been, you'd be in a master's level education to be taught CRT, but in fear-mongering about it, the GOP seems to have made a lot of us actually want to see CRT taught in schools.
At the end of the day, our country was not initially set up with equality for races or sexes. Those laws, though altered to try and account for a desire for equality, are often still set in ways that impact some folks differently.
CRT recognizes that while segregation and redlining are no longer legal, this history put people into communities that persist in a largely segregated way due to inheritance and habit- and we fund schools based on property tax value in the neighborhood, meaning white-dominant communities often have better-funded schools.
This is one example of an inequality that persists due to our racist past, and we do better to acknowledge those types of inequities caused by our past and seek to rectify them.
So sure, lets bring CRT into schools for the first time in our history. CRT marries our past, with our current residual troubles. Its probably high time to get it out of the exclusive educational big leagues, and into the public conversation.
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