Rex Kerr
Jan 5, 2022

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That's what I would have thought.

Oregon wants to teach this in sixth grade. I'm not sure whether they actually are, but they've published the guidelines. (Check out 3rd grade, too: https://www.oregon.gov/ode/educator-resources/standards/socialsciences/Documents/Ethnic%20Studies%20Webpage%20Communication.pdf)

So I think the claim that CRT "is not being taught in K-12" is wrong in essence.

We should instead be talking about whether it's a good idea, how much it's being taught, how CRTish it is, what name to give it if not CRT (anti-racism is probably not enough because there are non-CRT-like ways to do anti-racism e.g. like California's ethnic studies mostly are doing: heavily focused on triumphs over injustice and accomplishments of diverse peoples), what topics and presentations of those topics are age-appropriate, and so on. Flat-out denying that it's happening just doesn't seem accurate.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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