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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/09/controversy-teachers-dumbest-colleges/

“Hillsdale College — which Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called “a shining city on a hill” and which hired his activist wife, Ginni Thomas, to help establish a full-time presence in the nation’s capital — has became an important force in that movement under the leadership of Arnn, who has allied himself with former president Donald Trump. The college has helped launch dozens of “classical” charter schools across the country (Hillsdale doesn’t own or operate the schools but trains faculty and staff and shares curriculum) — and, now, at Lee’s invitation, Hillsdale is helping to open at least 50 charter schools in Tennessee. Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated.”

“The charter schools use a Hillsdale K-12 curriculum that is centered on Western civilization and designed to help “students acquire a mature love for America.” A Hillsdale K-12 civics and U.S. history curriculum released last year extols conservative values, attacks progressive ones and distorts civil rights history, saying, for example: “The civil rights movement was almost immediately turned into programs that ran counter to the lofty ideals of the Founders.” Hillsdale College itself offers a “classical liberal arts core” to its students; the website lists more than 30 authors and thinkers that students will encounter — nearly all of them White men”

[b]While there is still not a single K-12 school that teaches CRT,[/b] conservatives are openly attacking education and rewriting history. On one hand, I’m impressed they were able to make Dems out as CRT monsters while they were the ones doing the actual manipulating of history. On the other, I’m so embarrassed for my friends and fellow voters in VA that fell for it.[/quote]

You are manipulating language to serve your political goals.  CRT in the media is shorthand for the tenets that are outgrowths of CRT and you know this.  And from my view as a teacher, you absolutely must know that those tenets have infected nearly every lesson plan.  So stop with your "no school teaches CRT" and realize that no one is that dumb.  Go to teacherspayteachers or any curriculum vendor and see the fruits of the CRT tree.[/quote]

Omg. Schools acknowledged that racism exists.

Better tear it all down. 
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I hate the conservative CRT panic, and I also hate the disingenuous responses from the left about CRT. Yes structural racism has perpetuated inequality that persists today. No, "critical race theory" is not specifically taught in K-12 classrooms. However, "CRT" is used as a broader catch-all for "anti-racist" type thinking that has made its way into the instruction of teachers and into classroom curriculum. It is not merely acknowledging racism or teaching that racist things happened in the past. It also includes focusing on things like white privilege (which exists) without also necessarily focusing on the myriad of other variables that form an individual and put things like "white privilege" into context. 
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Omg. Someone somewhere acknowledged that white people have privilege.

BURN IT ALL DOWN.

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