We Knew That
What to know: The Wall Street Journal’s editor-at-large says critical race theory is “the opposite of education.”
The TPPF take: He’s right. CRT is wrong for our students.
“As a historian, I know that the premises of antiracism and the 1619 Project are factually inaccurate; this in itself is bad enough for America’s students,” says TPPF’s Kevin Roberts. “What’s worse—even destructive—is critical race theory’s insistence on objectifying us based on immutable characteristics. It holds that the colorblind society the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called for is, in fact, racist—even more so than what we have today.”
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We Can Show Otherwise
What to know: Still, proponents of critical race theory claim it’s not taught in Texas public schools.
The TPPF take: Yes, it is.
“As a high school debate coach, I’ve watched critical race theory crush the souls of students for years,” says TPPF’s Roy Maynard. “When it began to creep into the honored and honorable academic pursuit of policy (CX) debate, it lowered standards, created division and sundered relationships.”
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Soft Bigotry
What to know: Oregon students shouldn’t have to prove they can write or do math to get a diploma, that state’s legislature says.
The TPPF take: What’s behind this move to ensure that Oregon students get less—not more—of the education that really matters? You guess it—critical race theory. Minority students tend to do less well on standardized tests, so instead of improving the quality of teaching, we’ll just get rid of the tests.
“CRT’s grossly demeaning caricature of African-Americans, along with its racist assertion that ‘all whites are oppressors,’ does a gross injustice to Americans of all races and ethnicities,” says state Rep. Steve Toth, who authored a bill that effectively bans critical race theory in Texas classrooms. “CRT must plead guilty to what George W. Bush called ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations.’ CRT promises only to bring more hostility, more racial misunderstanding, and more violence to our cities and our nation.”
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