Countless op-eds and news segments have run for and against critical race theory as the Left tries to deny it's being taught in schools and the Right tries to ban it. But anyone who truly cares about our country's most vulnerable students should recognize that the CRT debate is one big distraction from a much more important conversation, one about the plight of those children who are failing.
Take Baltimore, for example. In 2020, 41 percent of Baltimore's Black high school students had a grade point average of a D or less. While the pandemic certainly accentuated this problem, it was 29 percent in the 2019.
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