The "CRT" debate is backwards because you have people arguing over solutions, but a large segment of the left and the press keep insisting the problem doesn't exist. You have to start by getting more people to acknowledge the problem, then we can debate specific solutions.
You have a response that has become pure gaslighting. It's people simultaneously arguing this (the normalization and promotion of neoracist ideas) isn't happening, but also it's a good thing if it is happening and only bigots could oppose it.
You have a whole movement normalizing and mainstreaming toxic and bigoted ideas in all aspects of society, including education. Those of us who object to those harmful views must counter them. That includes schools, where parents have a responsibility to protect their kids.
If you don't realize that teacher's unions don't care about your kids after this year, you're being willfully blind. So the only question becomes how do parents protect their kids from being put in those situations and indoctrinated with harmful nonsense?
The best answer would be competition. Give parents a real say in their children's education. Rich parents already have that with private schools, but others are stuck despite paying for that education via taxes. So fund students, not systems.
Until that becomes a reality, parents also have to fight against those seeking to harm their kids at schools without competition. That means actively participating in their education and raising hell when it deviates from what should be acceptable.
It's just a reality now that local gov't has a major role in setting the curriculum. The debate isn't whether they set one, but what is in it. So parents must participate and influence those decisions. They need to gain the power to have a say in what their children get taught.
That can include laws that restrict the curriculum. Those are not new or unique. There is a real concern if you make those laws too broad that they restrict actual education and things that kids shd learn, but the solution is to narrowly tailor them to address the actual issue.
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