@SethAbramson 1/ No one serious is claiming children are being assigned essays from professional legal studies journals. The point is a whole new K-12 pedagogy is emerging downstream from these grad-school ideas.
@SethAbramson 2/ Founders of CRT and curriculum designers/ instructional coordinators have explicitly used the term “CRT” to describe educational practices.
@SethAbramson 3/ From *Rethinking Ethnic Studies*, on K-12 ed.

"As Ethnic Studies courses enter K-12 school contexts, critical race theory offers concrete tools for framing pedagogies of race..."
@SethAbramson 4/ From ‘Critical Race Theory, Second Edition: An Introduction (Delgado and Stefancic, 2012):

“Although CRT began as a movement in the law, it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline. Today, many in the field of education consider themselves critical race theorists.”
@SethAbramson 5/ From Education Post (funded by the Walton Family Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative):

“CRT...provides educators tools they need to transform current practices in teaching & learning. [...] CRT allows for creation of new curricula that
@SethAbramson 6/ help students think critically about institutions that shape their lives & develop their own affirmative racial identities.”

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@DB1212013 @mattyglesias 1/ Here are some further examples.

Buffalo Public Schools has implemented antiracist curricula at various grade levels, including “the disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics.” In the kindergarten curriculum, children are required to watch a video dramatizing the death
@DB1212013 @mattyglesias 2/ of black children and warning them (kindergarteners) to beware of “racist police and state-sanctioned violence.” Middle school students are taught that “white elites work to perpetuate racism through politics, law, education, and the media,” and that “all white people play a
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