Critical Race Theory, giant brain sucking sounds follow it wherever it is believed.
Asian Americans have felt the most harm from CRT in education. Activists claim that teaching math and science perpetuates “white privilege.” They’re more interested in indoctrinating kids with identity politics, intersectionality and race struggles.
In an elementary school in Cupertino, California, where 94 percent of the students are non-white, a math teacher told third-graders in a math class that they live in a white-dominated culture, and had them rank themselves according to their “power and privilege” on an identity map. Asian parents organized a protest, demanding the school stop teaching racism to their children and start teaching actual math instead.
One Chinese-American parent explained that CRT’s emphasis on dividing society into oppressors and oppressed based on skin color reminded him of the bloody class struggle in Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
Asian parents are also alarmed about attempts to change admissions standards for colleges and top high schools at the expense of Asian American children. CRT activists have been pushing for lowering admission standards—or the complete removal of difficult entrance exams—to top high schools because “too many Asians” are in good schools, and Asians are so “over-represented” that these schools are not “diverse.” These were the arguments New York City mayor Bill de Blasio used to eliminate the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test.
He wanted to replace it with a new admissions process based on race, so the student bodies of New York City’s elite public high schools would mirror the city’s overall population composition and not be dominated by Asian kids.