In last week’s election, parents in Pennsylvania school districts responded to how critical race theory (CRT) and so-called anti-racism ideology have seeped into the curricula of K-12 classrooms. Indeed, with the aid of political organizations like the 1776 Project PAC, anti-CRT school board candidates prevailed in districts throughout the Keystone State.
Clearly, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, voters sent a message that divisive CRT-related teachings should be kept out of the classroom. These neo-Marxist teaching approaches render African-Americans to no more than victims of history rather than active agents in the nation’s story. Schools should reject CRT-driven lessons that view the world through the simplistic lens of oppressed vs. oppressor and embrace a pedagogy that confronts the nation’s history in all of its complexity. And school districts should find practical ways to fix the state’s underperforming schools through morale-building curricula.
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