I'm for it. It merely applies the Civil Rights Act (don't discriminate by race) to school systems.
A supporter of CRT holds that a white 7 year old is inherently oppressive (especially of Blacks) and possesses unrightful and unlawful privilege. Since I don't hold don't views, I'm not a CRT supporter.
Well, in most parts of the US, that 7 year old white child is inherently and unlawfully privileged if you hold that all men are created equal and have equal rights under the law. While the child is not to to blame for any thing of this it is still a fact that as a whole (and not seen from an individual child but of all children as a whole), it is inherently true that a lot of these children will grow up to some degree part of a society that has repressive tendencies to blacks/latino's/Jews (you know people who physically do not conform to the "majority") and people like transgender/gay).
For almost 100% it is not the fault of the child, it is the "fault of teachers", the media, schooling, parents, family, etc. etc. etc. You know, society as a whole. Loads of people shown in the media/hollywood as lazy, criminal, slumming, poverty are usually minorities. Most brave police officers are usually shown as nice white family men/women. The education system is the same, parents have also grown up with the same institutional bias, especially older generations.
I do not know if CRT is the solution to this problem, I really do not because I have not studied it enough but the knee jerk reaction towards it is also part of the institutional bias. Rather than looking for the good in CRT and removing the unwanted things and making it age appropriate might be wiser than just banning it because it also bans the chance for honest discussions.
And I admit in the Netherlands we have created the same problems, maybe even bigger because with us it is the immigrants who have the issue and people like from where I live and other very dialect speaking areas of the Netherlands.
Part of it is worse school achievements and black and white schools. My mother was a reading teachers assistance at school and because the parents of a lot of kids were growing up in a home where only dialect was spoken, most kids had a huge reading deficiency in Dutch because they often did not know what specific words meant. The same is true with immigrant children, their parents do not speak Dutch so at home they grow up with all foreign language speaking people. Often they also watch foreign television. So when they reach school age they already lag a lot behind when it comes to the Dutch language. In speaking language the difference is a bit less but especially when it comes to reading and writing they are way behind their Dutch classmates.
While the US does not have that specific problem, it also has the issue of black children often coming into schools with teachers of lesser quality, schools that are not as good as "white schools", etc. etc. In this it is the same as in Dutch schools because white children usually live in better areas where there are better schools (white schools) and most minority children and poorer Dutch children go to "black schools" and that difference in being in arrears is often then an issue throughout the rest of these children's lives.
All in all it is a very difficult problem. I do not know if CRT is the solution but maybe discussing institutional discrimination is a good thing if done properly if it is age appropriate.
Also, from what I understood CRT was supposed to be taught at college level and university level. Which sounds the best as it is a very complex field to study.
