A common response from leftists who dislike the Right’s efforts to ban critical race theory from public schools is that CRT isn’t even being taught in public schools, so the debate over the ideology is therefore moot.
This is not true. There is plenty of evidence that proves public schools have already begun to fill children’s heads with rank racialism. The nation’s largest teachers union even admitted as much this week.
The National Education Association published a plan for school reopenings that says teaching CRT is “reasonable and appropriate” and that teachers will oppose anti-CRT and anti-1619 Project legislation. The plan also says teachers will “share and publicize … information already available on CRT — what it is and what it is not” and “have a team of staffers for members who want to learn more and fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric.”
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) July 7, 2021
The union must have realized this plan proved conservatives right because it scrubbed the agenda item from its website shortly after publishing it:
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3 days after their annual meeting concludes, @NEAToday, the nation’s largest teacher’s union, scrubs the agenda items announcing their nationwide campaign to push CRT from their website.
Why are they covering up their support for CRT? ? pic.twitter.com/uWZomRt2dV
— Jessica Anderson (@JessAnderson2) July 6, 2021
The NEA’s written commitment to CRT proves a couple of things: First, concerns about CRT in the public school system are not misplaced. Second, there are many teachers and administrators within the public school system who do intend to teach children that America is an almost irreparably racist place full of inherently racist people.
Most important, the teachers union’s admission proves the conservative legislative fight against CRT is just, necessary, and the best solution to what is now an obvious problem.
Some conservatives would disagree. They believe anti-CRT legislation sets a bad precedent and that the better solution is to “propose better curriculums.”
However, it does not matter how much better the proposed curriculum is when very powerful teachers union officials are hellbent on pushing CRT into the public school system anyway. They have made their intentions clear, and the only way to stop the unions from acting on those intentions is to legally prevent them from doing so.
State legislatures and local school boards have every right to determine what is taught in their public schools. They must exercise this right, or the teachers unions will do it for them.
