Academics Angry About Ban on Teaching Critical Race Theory at K-12 Level in Louisiana

Academics Angry About Ban on Teaching Critical Race Theory at K-12 Level in Louisiana

Remember when all the people on the left assured us that no one was even teaching this in schools? They’re still denying it.

The College Fix reports:

Academics rip Louisiana ban on teaching critical race theory at K-12 level

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed an executive order late last month which bans the teaching of critical race theory in the state’s public K-12 schools.

The order directs Louisiana Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley to look over state DOE policies and “eliminate” anything which “posit[s] that an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive,” the Louisiana Illuminator reports.

Brumley also is tasked with

flag[ging] claims that moral character is necessarily determined by someone’s race or sex, or that, by virtue of their race or sex, they bear responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex [as well as] weed[ing] out anything that suggests meritocracy or traits such as a strong work ethic are racist or sexist, or were created by a particular race or sex to oppress another race or sex, or encourages students to discriminate against someone based on any characteristic protected by federal or state law.

Academics pounced on the executive order, making the common claim that CRT is an “advanced academic concept” taught at the graduate-school level, not in K-12 schools.

LSU’s Belinda Davis, a political science professor who as an appointee of Gov. John Edwards “fought back against claims of student indoctrination at the hands of liberal teachers,” said Landry’s edict serves to “satisfy the extremists in his party by solving a problem that doesn’t exist.”

According to The Hullabaloo, Tulane ethnomusicology professor Matt Sakakeeny (pictured), whose work “relates music and sound to structures of inequality,” said he believes conservatives don’t want to be taught about “white supremacy and racism.”

Sakakeeny said Landry had to issue an executive order because state lawmakers couldn’t even figure out what critical race theory is, hence no legislative bill.

Tulane Law School’s Robert Westley, a former chair of the Annual Critical Race Theory Workshop, said “certain members of the general public” have no idea what critical race theory is about. “They just hear the word race, and they react negatively to it on that basis,” he said.

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