Any good magician creates distractions. The keyย to figuring out the trick is to know what the other hand is doing.
All throughout the course of this school year,ย while the debates were being waged in school board meetings andย in courts, Iโve posed the point that my bigger concern isnโtย about masks. Itโs been about the principal. If school districts are willing to break the law by usurpingย parents'ย rightsย in plain sight, my concern is on other things schools are doing or are willing to do.ย
For example, teaching Critical Race Theory or other forms of indoctrination. Remember, the reason CRT and related issues came to the forefront when they didย was a combination of greater racial activism surrounding the BLM movement last year combined with parentsย actually seeingย and hearing what was being taught through online education during the pandemic.ย Indoctrination in the classroom isnโt new.
Thereโs no telling where specifically youโll find it but these days the CRT concerns should be real.ย Anyway, the reason Iโve specifically mentioned this again today is due to the alarming statement made by Palm Beach County School Superintendentย Michaelย Burke to State Representativeย Rick Roth whenย Roth posed the question as to if Critical Race Theory was being taught in schools.
Burkeโsย responseย wasnโt a simple no. He said, "Critical Raceย Theoryย is a manufactured term to incite, to try to divideย us".ย Thatโs more than a little disturbing for multiple reasons. Critical Race Theory isnโt a term, itโsย the title of a bookย that proposes a curriculum.ย As for the adaptation by schools, Critical Race Theory was the basis for theย 1619ย Projectย which was created by the New York Times and perpetuated by the Pulitzer Center. The 1619 Project was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and subsequently shared with 4,500 schools across the country by the Pulitzer Center. This included South Floridaโs schools.ย