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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For all of you who day CRT is bad - read this

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Teaching about the Tulsa massacre is not CRT.  That's teaching history.  It's good to know what happened in the past, so we don't repeat it.

CRT is about teaching kids they are inherently racist or oppressors simply because they are white.  That has no place in the classroom.[/quote]

+1 Exactly this. No one is saying we shouldn’t teach about our history. I don’t think people understand what critical race theory is. We need to teach about our past and deal with uncomfortable issues like racism and how to move forward from it. But CRT is not a good way to go about it. [/quote]

I'm a 4th grade teacher, we are regularly having historically based conversations in the classroom. I consider my my job to teach kids how to think, not what to think. We can have a lesson covering the Tulsa Race Massacre, my students are old enough to draw their own conclusions and about why this event happened, building on their prior knowledge and using their critical thinking skills. I can lead a conversation and ask "why" without extending it to have an intentional conversation about systemic and institutional racism and white supremacy - my students are not dummies, they know exactly what's going on. I can ask the question "Why do you think what happened in Tulsa was originally called a riot?" If there is a natural extension (lead by my students) to have that further conversation, we will. We can have a lesson about Juneteenth the day the legislation is signed and students can continue to connect the dots with a lot of "why" questions. We can talk about the voting rights act and I can lead a fact based discussion about who got the right to vote when and then ask the question "Why do you think black women got the right to vote last?'[/quote]

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