Take it from a high schooler who’s actually learned about CRT: Adults need to chill out

Opinions | Take it from a high schooler who's actually learned about CRT: Adults need to chill out

Have we been taught that all White people are racist? No. That White people should feel guilty? No. To hate our White friends and teachers? Absolutely not.

Opinion by Christiane Calixte

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In most schools, as has been well established, critical race theory — an approach to analyzing the intersection of race, history and the law, generally reserved for higher education — isn't even being taught. And yet, since January 2021, according to Education Week, more than 30 states "have introduced bills or taken other steps that would restrict teaching critical race theory or limit how teachers can discuss racism and sexism" in K-12 schools.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/14/high-school-critical-race-theory-message-to-protesters/