025 When Did Public Schools become Public Enemy #1?

<p>Critical Race Theory (CRT) has become the latest way to demonize public schools. I admit when I first heard CRT I thought it was some medical test for the heart. Now it has become the fear-raising focus of concern among many people inside and outside of education.</p> <p>To better understand what CRT is I spent a lot of hours looking at where it came from in the first place. The research makes me believe that most people don’t really understand what CRT is or its purpose.</p> <p>An article from <a href="https://journalistsresource.org/education/critical-race-theory-school-racism/https://journalistsresource.org/education/critical-race-theory-school-racism/"><u>The JournalistsResource.org </u></a>&nbsp;tries to help journalists learn how to better cover this controversy. The author quotes <a href="https://education.msu.edu/search/Formview.aspx?email=dcarter%40msu.edu"><u>Dorinda Carter</u></a><a href="https://education.msu.edu/search/Formview.aspx?email=dcarter%40msu.edu"><u> Andrews</u></a>, chairperson for the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University She explains that</p> <p><em>“Critical race theory is not an ideology or a political orientation that assumes white people are bad; it assumes </em><a href="https://journalistsresource.org/economics/white-supremacy-research-cyber-racism/"><u><em>white supremacy</em></u><em> </em></a><em>is bad in all of its forms. It’s a practice or approach that provides language and a lens for examining racism at institutional and structural levels, Underlying this is the premise that racism is endemic to American society and that white supremacist ideas and practices should be dismantled.”</em></p> <p><a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TmDTAA0/janel-george"><u>Janel George</u></a>. who teaches CRT as part of a graduate course called <a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/faculty-teaching?id=00336000014TmDTAA0"><u>Racial Justice in K-12 Education Policy</u></a> at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy,