Florida’s new educational standards do teach a lesson.
. What’s been gathered—or shoved—under the umbrella of CRT is a burgeoning push to incorporate and prioritize anti-racism in a slew of academic teachings, most prominently the teaching of American history.
The crusade DeSantis is promoting is one based on generalities—on a vague and all-encompassing political boogeyman. He is operating in American tradition of conjuring an enemy without grounding it, so it reigns free, amorphous, embodying whomever’s worst nightmare. Throughout American history, the political boogeyman has come and gone. It exists currently in conservative panic around critical race theory.Slate is covering the stories that matter to you.
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