NEW SECTION ON THIS SITE: CRT, A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK
For months now, parents and taxpayers in school districts around the country (and in Rockwood), have debated whether Critical Race Theory (CRT) is in K-12 schools.
Now that Missouri lawmakers are again trying to ban the tenets/beliefs/ideology of CRT from Missouri schools, and now that Missouri's Attorney General is requesting examples of ideology in classrooms, AND now that we have two new school board members in Rockwood, the issue has renewed focus.
(The candidates who won Rockwood's school board election ran on campaigns that emphasized getting politics out of schools and sticking to academics.)
WHAT IS CRT, ANYWAY?
In a nutshell, it's a theory that legal scholars use to view the role of race in our country's laws and institutions. In practical terms, it says your identity (race and gender) determines whether you will be oppressed or privileged, because of racism on which our laws and institutions were founded, and, because that racism still exists today.
Here are a couple of links that go into more detail.
THE ARGUMENT
The argument has been pretty circular: parents who argue that CRT is NOT in schools argue that the main tenets of CRT SHOULD BE in schools.
Those tenets (race and gender make you oppressed or privileged, our country is racist, etc.), are reasons why Rockwood has an entire department devoted to Diversity Equity and Inclusion, which is very much in the district's teacher training, class lesson content, and books.
When parents who don't want the focus on race or gender in schools speak out, they are asked for proof that it's there. This site provides some of that proof.
Not proof of any class or assignment called CRT. Those are not in Rockwood.
Instead, proof that the basic tenets of CRT, and the beliefs associated with it, are in the materials our teachers and students use for class work and training.
This post is to let readers know that we decided to address this issue, so that, hopefully, everyone can operate from the same information.
THE POINTS WE HIT
Now, on the side menu, we have page tabs devoted to this topic.
CRT: IN ROCKWOOD. SEE WHAT WE FOUND
CRT: ATTEMPTS TO BAN IT FROM SCHOOLS IN MISSOURI
Note:
We ALL should agree that Critical Race Theory, as a CLASS, isn't taught in K-12 schools. Instead, it's the tenets, or beliefs of CRT, that have been found in all grade levels of classes in Rockwood and in teacher resources and training.