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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Also since CRT is a floating signifier on both sides of the strange debate about it, why can't CRT be culturally responsive teaching? It's whatever the person talking wants it to mean. It's meaningless. But most people who don't like it basically are objecting to the idea that[b] someone might teach that white people are inherently oppressors or inherently bad.[/[/b]quote]

Unfortunately, there are examples of that happening in some school systems in Virginia. That may not be what CRT is--but that is occurring.

CRT teaches that we see everyone through a racial lens and judge people based on race.  Some people do--but they are telling us that ALL people do.  Of course, we have eyes and can see color--but that doesn't mean we all judge by color.

I was a teacher.  One day, for some reason, an administrator needed a breakdown of the races in my first grade class.  It was after school.  I was an elementary school teacher.  I had to go get my grade book and visualize every child--which of course, I was able to do.  But, I had never looked at them by race.  The class was quite diverse and pretty close to the breakdown of race in the US.  Also, included more multiracial kids than found in most schools.

The new "equity" standards being discussed at the retreat on Friday, are very interesting.  Teacher has to think of each child and know their cultural background and teach them accordingly.
That doesn't sound like "equity" to me, and it certainly isn't equality.

My cultural background is American.  [/quote]

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