Standard knowledge has it that there are solely two sides within the tradition warfare over children’ instruction on race and racism in America. These on the precise wish to impose state-level bans on instructing important race principle in public colleges. Some additionally wish to take away specific books from libraries and curriculums. On the left, folks wish to train about America’s historical past of racism and modern systemic racism however from just one perspective, with little if any room for debate. They deny CRT is being taught. I don’t imagine these are actually the one choices. Faculties can and may train about race and racism whereas upholding this nation’s liberal values of free inquiry.
I do know firsthand that American public colleges are affected by extremely ideological instruction. I just lately acquired an e-mail from Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Faculties, the place I’ve two youngsters enrolled in eleventh grade, updating mother and father on an “Antiracist Audit” the varsity system is enterprise. The report describes a brand new proposed social-studies curriculum, which “strengthens college students’ sense of racial, ethnic, and tribal identities, helps college students perceive and resist programs of oppression, and empowers college students to see themselves as change brokers.”
