My school board (in Ontario) decided to officially adopt CRT last spring, at which point I wrote them a 7-page essay explaining why CRT is not scientific, consistent, or apolitical. They ignored me completely so I started homeschooling my kids from that point on. Ironically, this was at the end of the first lockdown so when I tell people I homeschool my kids, they all assume it had to do with being afraid of the wuflu.
These people snuck this in under cover of a global pandemic. Instead of figuring out the whole online learning thing (which by all accounts is terrible), they decided to focus their limited time on this. And they can't even justify it.
I also sent my letter to all the parents I know as well as relevant politicians. I got a bunch of support, including a woman whose family fled Vietnam when she was a child who says this type of garbage is exactly why they left.
The only people defending it all say the exact same thing: "You don't understand CRT, you need to read this book". But, while it's always the same type of race-baiting nonsense, it's never the same book. There are no foundational principals for CRT, like there are for physics, biology, psychology etcetc. This seems to be on purpose specifically so that they can change the definition when called out.
They full well know that CRT is fucked but that's not their concern; half the job titles of the people at the board meeting would not exist if not for CRT. They also readily admit that the things they do have little or no effect, but instead of abandoning an obviously useless "theory", they double down and demand more resources.
This shit is a cult. Once you drink the koolaid, you can't back out.
On the plus side, homeschooling is very loosly regulated here and it's going very well. Once you're away from the factory school system, you can focus on subjects with actual value. My kids practice reading and math (which is all the public school seems able to handle, albeit poorly), but they also learn music, art, programming, money management, cooking, martial arts, maintaining a household, and whatever I'm working on that I can teach them, including responsibility (one of their daily exercises is working together, without me, to make my lunches for work each day).
I highly recommend getting your kids out as soon as you can. I know some states have more stringent rules but the standards they set are laughable; the hardest part is trying to figure out what they actually want through the word salad they use to hide their incompetence.
My school board (in Ontario) decided to officially adopt CRT last spring, at which point I wrote them a 7-page essay explaining why CRT is not scientific, consistent, or apolitical. They ignored me completely so I started homeschooling my kids from that point on. Ironically, this was at the end of the first lockdown so when I tell people I homeschool my kids, they all assume it had to do with being afraid of the wuflu.
These people snuck this in under cover of a global pandemic. Instead of figuring out the whole online learning thing (which by all accounts is terrible), they decided to focus their limited time on this. And they can't even justify it.
I also sent my letter to all the parents I know as well as relevant politicians. I got a bunch of support, including a woman whose family fled Vietnam when she was a child who says this type of garbage is exactly why they left.
The only people defending it all say the exact same thing: "You don't understand CRT, you need to read this book". But, while it's always the same type of race-baiting nonsense, it's never the same book. There are no foundational principals for CRT, like there are for physics, biology, psychology etcetc. This seems to be on purpose specifically so that they can change the definition when called out.
They full well know that CRT is fucked but that's not their concern; half the job titles of the people at the board meeting would not exist if not for CRT. They also readily admit that the things they do have little or no effect, but instead of abandoning an obviously useless "theory", they double down and demand more resources.
This shit is a cult. Once you drink the koolaid, you can't back out.
On the plus side, homeschooling is very loosly regulated here and it's going very well. Once you're away from the factory school system, you can focus on subjects with actual value. My kids practice reading and math (which is all the public school seems able to handle, albeit poorly), but they also learn music, art, programming, money management, cooking, martial arts, maintaining a household, and whatever I'm working on that I can teach them, including responsibility (one of their daily exercises is working together, without me, to make my lunches for work each day).
I highly recommend getting your kids out as soon as you can. I know some states have more stringent rules but the standards they set are laughable; the hardest part is trying to figure out what they actually want through the word salad they use to hide their incompetence.