for fuck's sake, literally NO ONE is teaching critical race theory to children, unless your child is in law school, in which case, congratulations
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are they not? I feel like I've seen a lot of photos of curriculums for children floating around with CRT stuff in it
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Is teaching that slavery existed CRT? Seems to me the end goal is to literally wipe American racism from history.
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I mean, there’s post grad level theory and then there’s whatever the fuck a state education board calls CRT.
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naw, i mean i think it's extremely important to teach about racism, slavery, and the impacts it's had reaching to today - I'm talkin about full on CRT stuff, which has many other things bundled in
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It’s supposed to be vague, that’s how to eliminate teaching anything you think is bad with a broad brush.
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Or they don't want to admit what it is that triggers them.
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all yall are so uncharitable here; twitter is hard to have nuanced debates with, I'm trying to say that my conception of CRT involves things *in addition* to teaching about racism, that seem damaging to me. Your conception about CRT may be different and i'm open to hearing that
yes it's vague but its cause im not ready to type a novel, not cause i'm trying to be sketchy
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Well, what is damaging? One or two examples are important. There's a big difference between "it makes the US look bad" vs "An overreliance on neo-Marxist economic theory needlessly interjects class struggle into a debate that should concentrate on the law and its racist origins".
My conception of algebra includes learning how to make a perfect soufflé, so my child is now a world-class baker at age 15. As are all children, because my conception means that all algebra classes must be teaching soufflé-making. But I prefer creme brûlée, so this is wrong.
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