A group of scholars urged the National School Boards Association and local school boards nationwide to end the teaching of “any curricula that depict America as irredeemably racist.”

“The prevailing narrative of racial grievances has been corrupting the instruction of American history and the humanities for many decades, but has accelerated dangerously over the past year,” reads Monday’s letter, which did not mention critical race theory by name. “The most damaging effects of such instruction fall on lower income minority children, who are implicitly told that they are helpless victims with no power or agency to shape their own futures.”