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The Fort Worth, Texas, public school district has insisted that its schools do not teach critical race theory, but a document and videos suggest that the school district has inculcated the key tenets of CRT into its teacher trainings and practices, even giving teachers and staff a class introducing them to “critical race theory.”
“The superintendent and the bureaucracy are doing a disservice to the students by teaching them that color is everything, that America is oppressive, and that White supremacy is everywhere,” Carlos Turcios, a young activist who organizes parent protests and who spent four years on the district’s Racial Equity Committee, told Fox News in an interview on Monday. “Last time I checked, critical race theory doesn’t help kids learn how to pay the bills, pay their taxes, or pass that job interview.”
Turcios cited numerous examples of what he characterized as Fort Worth Independent School District implementing CRT — a framework that involves deconstructing aspects of society to discover systemic racism beneath the surface.
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Turcios pointed to a direct mention of CRT in the “Overview of Services” provided by Fort Worth ISD’s Division of Equity and Excellence in September 2020. The document describes a virtual course offering for “professional development” titled “Critical Race Theory (CRT) in Fort Worth ISD: An Introduction.”
The course offers “a working understanding of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its central tenets” including “the permanence of racism, whiteness as property,” and “critique of liberalism.” It also offers “an understanding of the endemic nature of racism and white supremacy to US society at its founding and into the present” and “the ability to read, understand, and apply CRT as an analysis tool in their current roles.”
“As a culminating activity, participants will develop their own…
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