You’ve been responded to by many, but I want to emphasize how much this is treated as a feature instead of a bug. This tweet is literally the playbook they’ve been using:
Important to note is the tweet’s author has been at the forefront of the anti-CRT movement and was a speaker at the act’s announcement. It’s been turned into a sniff test. If it’s got any tinge of CRT - race- and equity-related - then it was obviously influenced by CRT and must be removed. If teachers received even the suggestion of antiracism and antibias training, then what they teach may still be influenced by it. At the very least it’s an indication of where that school leans.
What’s interesting is that there are many who know exactly what CRT is, but they take advantage of the ignorance to focus on clearly made-up outcomes. They misinform that teaching about CRT-related issues leads to hurt feelings in white students who will inevitably identify with historical racists as well as teaching children of color that racial disparities are inherent. They’re absurdly well read on the texts so they can make sure to cherry pick quotes and use them out of context to convince people they’re right.
It’s assumed that their end goal is to purge public schools of funding as well as staff (by making it increasingly difficult for them to work) and drive up private school attendance. Not far removed from these discussions are vouchers that follow kids from school to school, instead of the money per student going to the public schools. Not only because there are parties involved who would profit from this but also because there’s more control over what sorts of people can teach and attend. There are private schools that aren’t so insidious, but people love their religious private schools with morality clauses such as those that make incoming teachers agree that homosexuality is an abomination.
Not surprising, groups pushing for all of this have ties not only to the rightwing (with some fairly direct connections to DeSantis himself), extremist groups, and to J6. Attempts at obscurity fall short, which makes it all the more distressing when they’re successful in turning the system against people. Of course, one could argue all they’re doing is perpetuating what already exists in the system…
