After Tennessee Moves To Ban Critical Race Theory, Educators Alternate Between Pledging To Break Law And Denying CRT Was Ever In Schools

After lawmakers in Tennessee’s State House voted to ban schools from teaching divisive racial concepts this month, educators can’t decide whether to angrily pledge to defy the law or claim it was unnecessary because they were never doing such a thing.

As the uproar over attempts to indoctrinate children has reached a fever pitch in numerous states, the education establishment has adopted the same approaches everywhere: Some trot out cagey denials based on semantics about “critical race theory.” Others double down, lamenting that banning divisive racial concepts would significantly change their jobs and deeming efforts to depoliticize schools as the latest example of oppression.