What is your definition of critical race theory? I’m not looking for opinions. This is straight up KWL and we are starting with K. So what do you know, like for sure, like what can you explain to someone else confidently and accurately about CRT?

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CRT is the latest iteration of cultural Marxism that uses race, rather than class, as the societal structure by which to destabilize Western Democratic societies, destroy free market economies, & usher in a new system of tried-and-truly-failed socialism on the slippery slope toward communism/totalitarianism.

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Thanks for citation. I think one that may help underscore that is Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s documentary on Reconstruction.

Something taught in law school that those of us in K12 should not be even thinking about.
For those who say it's being taught in K12, who's teaching it? I don't know many teachers who went to law school. How can one teach something they've never themselves learned?
Don't be seduced by the partisan political people on TV/social media. It's all nonsense. I'll give them credit though, they done a great job of getting everyone fired up over something that doesn't exist.

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CRT is a specific. "It's called something else" is obtuse. It's a law school course. You're confusing it for an idea. Discussing slavery, racism, or civil rights is not CRT.

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I’m starting to see why our educational system is broken. Even the teachers can’t answer the question.

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I define it as a theoretical lens that uses racial constructs to interrogate, investigate, and explore various aspects of societal systems. It can also be used to analyze historical and literary texts.

Now for the W (in KWL)
I want to know if it could be useful in identifying parts of our system that are undemocratic or limit access to either our democracy or our capitalistic economic system? I’m really curious as to how it could be helpful.

Any Ws for you?

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Originally a way of thinking about the impact of race on law matters, it has crossed over into public discourse and practices in schools in that views such as intersectionality, anti racism, and either/or thinking is present among many educators and large school districts. It may not be being explicitly taught in classrooms but it is certainly impacting district level decision making in Department of E&I.

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I think most teachers, unless you are law professors, don’t have a real understanding of what CRT is. It is inherently a law school course, or at least graduate level. It’s not anything most of as education majors would have even been exposed to. I think this is why so many different opinions are circulating.

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I teach US Hostory, government and political structures. I understand it, I've examined it, and I've seen the need for it. Those that haven't my background may not totally understand it, but a lot of it is willful ignorance on their parts, simply because it can be explained on a lot of levels in "plain English" as it were. People just get stuck in their echo chambers and believe whatever fits in with their personal belief system, good or bad. They also tend to listen to people who claim to be "experts" who also can't answer this question but tell others how to feel about it. Some of them have been mentioned on this thread, and when they are used as an "expert," that person who believes them to be such loses all credibility in my eyes.

I know that a lot of members of the GIP are angry about it. I suspect it’s largely due to the Dunning-Krueger Effect.

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In general I am surprised at how often teachers are quick to speak unkindly to and about each other. In most teacher groups I'm in I don't see modeled the kind of collaborative discussions I work toward with my students. That is sad.

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I’m not being unkind. I’m being blatantly honest.

Well, I must have misinterpreted your meaning. You seemed to be castigating one particular group.

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