I actually was taught this in public school - in the south, too. It didn't use the language of CRT, but we were taught about de facto and de jure segregation and their effects.
I went to school in the south, and we did learn about this in school, but not necessarily in class.
My district was still litigating its original Brown v. Board follow-on lawsuit from the 1950s in the twenty-first century. To get released from the lawsuit, the district had to show that the racial composition at each school matched the overall average for the whole district within 10 percentage points.
That meant that each school needed to be 75-85% black enrollment, in a city that was 54% black overall. Where did all those white students go? They went to private religious schools and to the suburbs. This was obvious to any kid when you went to the sporting events.
On Malcolm Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History, he talks about Brown v BoE, and what's interesting is that the opinion from the SCOTUS was that "children should have equal access to quality education no matter their skin color". The argument was that black run schools were worse because "black teachers were naturally worse than white teachers". The result was that when schools were integrated, the black teachers were disproportionately let go and the schools kept all the white teachers.
This is a big reason black students didn't receive the support they needed as they had to deal with teachers who were now biased against them.
I went through public schooling in the south. There were still desegregation laws on the books for the school district I was in. The junior and senior high schools I went to both boasted pre-ap and AP programs that any kid in the county could apply to be apart of. Only about 100 kids were accepted per grade in junior high... Y'all, they shipped in the white kids. (Disclaimer: not all who were a part of the program were white, just the majority of them.) They shipped in the kids from the surrounding white flight areas. Twenty plus years later and it still makes me shake my head.
Does anyone have a good link to CRT curriculum? I was talking with someone about them not knowing the details and then struggled to pull up a curriculum since most searches just yielded vague articles one way or the other.
The classic book on CRT is Derrick Bell's Race, Racism, and American Law, which was written back in 1973. Usually actual CRT is only taught in law schools because it's super academic and kinda boring though edgy.
Honestly having studied it myself I find CRT rather non-scientific and it's kind of annoying to hear people defend it even though I agree with the overall conclusion that race is a social construct, and that racism is pervasive and far from over. It's just that it oversimplifies history and then fails to offer any goals or solutions.
Ah thanks for that. I'm really hoping for a CRT curriculum for high schools. I do recall a few articles alluding to CRT in law schools, but that type of teaching isn't for high school. I'm also not sure if this is taught as a separate class or as an emphasis during history class etc. I would love if a teacher has a solid link
Sadly, the demographic who decries critical race theory as leftist propaganda would look at this comic and unironically agree with it as they consider the explanation to be false political babble and not true whatsoever.