Georgia’s majority-white, governor-appointed Board of Education approved a resolution on Thursday that seeks to stop teaching what members call “divisive ideologies” in public schools.
You wouldn’t know by the resolution that most of the meeting was a debate of Critical Race Theory — which focuses on how historical inequities and racism continue to shape American society.
Even though it doesn’t specifically mention Critical Race Theory, it’s the only ideology that the board discussed during the hourlong meeting. And if it wasn’t clear heading into the virtual meeting that the theory was the elephant in the increasingly tense room, Gov. Brian Kemp and State School Superintendent Richard Woods released statements applauding the board’s “opposition to teaching Critical Race Theory in Georgia’s K-12 classrooms.”
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