What’s inside: The section of the LEARNS Act in question bans critical race theory. It defines “prohibited indoctrination” as communication by a public school employee, representative or guest speaker that compels a person to adopt, affirm or profess an idea that people are inferior or superior based on protected classes like race and sex.
Reality check: Critical race theory is a college-level framework which holds that racism is baked into the formation of the nation and ingrained in our legal, financial and education systems.
It’s seldom taught in public schools, especially grade schools.
“In the state of Arkansas, we will not indoctrinate our kids and teach them to hate America or each other. It’s sad the radical left continues to lie and play political games with our kids’ futures,” Sanders said in response to the lawsuit, according to the Advocate.
Shout it from your $19k podium.
She is not a very rad person.
we will not indoctrinate our kids
That’s exactly what you want to do, Mrs. Smokey Eye.
we will not indoctrinate our kids and teach them to hate … each other
You know, unless one of them is gay, or a minority, or generally different from us in any way.
It seems pretty ironic that, in future studies of critical race theory, the current era of trying to ban the teaching of CRT will be used as a textbook example of how ingrained in our culture racism really is
It’s all projection. Meanwhile, they’ll support mandatory prayer in schools.
