The National Education Association, which boasts 2.3 millions members, recently passed a resolution claiming it is “reasonable and appropriate” to include CRT in curriculum — and pledged to create “a team of staffers” to help teachers “fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric,” according to Fox News.
To boost the effort, the NEA will work to publicize “an already-created, in-depth study that critiques white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy … capitalism … and other forms of power and oppression,” according to the NEA site.
CRT asserts that racism is not just about individual bias but systemic in society and government policies and institutions, including the legal system. The 1619 Project refers to efforts to focus on when the first African slaves arrived in America and their contributions to the country.
“To deny opportunities to teach truth about Black, Brown, and other marginalized races minimalizes the necessity for students to build efficacy,” the NEA said. “The ancient African proverb says, ‘Know Thyself.’
“it is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks for understanding and interpreting the impact of the past on current society, including critical race theory,” the union said.
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