Critical race theory, a radical school of academic thought that centers on an individual’s ethnic background in most discussions, has swept the country’s primary schools.
In both public and private institutions, children are regularly subjected to lessons about systemic racism, the evils of “whiteness,” and their country’s wickedness.
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Below you can find some examples of critical race theory:
1. Children for communism
Earlier this year, a whistleblower uncovered a fifth-grade social studies lesson in Philadelphia that asked students to celebrate the “black communist” Angela Davis. Students were asked to act out “free Angela Davis” rallies, demanding that the government release the Black Panther imprisoned on charges of murder, conspiracy, and kidnapping.
The Philadelphia public school system released an “Antiracism Declaration” last summer that said educators must “no longer be passive or disjointed in [their] approach.”
“Race is the social construction that set the foundation and built the infrastructure for the United States we know today,” the memo read. “Racism is the root of all other forms of injustice and provides the nourishment needed for other systems of oppression to thrive. As such, in order to destroy the tree, we cannot simply pick at the leaves or chop away at the trunk, we must destroy the root.”
2. BLM’s Buffalo soldiers
The Office of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives in Buffalo, New York, announced a new curriculum for fifth-grade students last July centered on Black Lives Matter. The lessons include learning the Black Lives Matter “declaration on Black Villages.”
“We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, and especially ‘our’ children to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable,” the lesson read.
One of the core tenants of Black Lives Matter had long been rebuking the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.” After much criticism, the organization took that goal off its website.
3. Homework for parents
At the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, a private primary school that can run upward of $40,000 a year in tuition, parents are asked to “decenter whiteness at home and in [their] family.”
“Pay attention to how your language may perpetuate ‘universal’ standards of beauty, speech, behavior, dress, conflict resolution, etc.,” a memo from a middle school teacher read. “It’s quite common for a person to compliment two of my three children on their beautiful blue eyes. While I always appreciate the compliment, I am conscious of my third brown-eyed child — what message is she receiving about how she fits in with European standards of beauty? When in my own positive and negative interactions with children have I come from a white-centered approach?”
4. Fear and learning in Las Vegas
A black mother filed a lawsuit against a Las Vegas charter school earlier this year over a course that mandated seniors list elements of their identity that would be regarded as privileged.
“William Clark was compelled to participate in public professions of his racial, religious, sexual, and gender identities, and would be labeled as an ‘oppressor’ on these bases,” the mother’s court filing read.
Lessons in the course included statements such as “reverse racism isn’t real” and that the traditional idea of family “reinforce[s] racist/homophobic prejudices.”
5. Amazing Grace
At the Grace Church High School in New York City, students are asked to stop referring to their parents as “mom and dad.”
“While we recognize hateful language that promotes racism, misogyny, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination are already addressed in our school handbooks, we also recognize that we can do more than ban hateful language; we can use language to create welcoming and inclusive spaces,” a memo from the school read.
Grace Church High School, which has a tuition of around $53,000 a year, defended its guidance.
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“We have been trying to help families find the right words for years and this was designed as an aid to that process,” the school’s headmaster George Davison said.
