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Kids need to learn truths

I was concerned to see D-49 is considering banning teaching of critical race theory. To deny that racism in America goes beyond a few ignorant members of society is to deny truth. And that must be the foundational cornerstone of education; that there are truths. Kids want, and moreover, need to learn truths in their foundational learning.

Martin Luther King said the biggest problem in America isn’t blatantly overt racist groups like the KKK, it was too much of moderate white America refused to get involved; they tolerated, and thereby enabled, racist policies to prevail. Less than 1/2 of Americans have a college degree. Statistically, we can expect that for more than 1/2 of D-49 students, their high school education is the highest level of education they will receive. Thus, arguments that, “high school isn’t the place” for learning things like CRT are not valid. They need to learn to think, to discuss ideas, even unpopular ones, or they will never be fully functional citizens.

Blatant attempts to hide truth, to protect white America, is something that no one should tolerate. I urge D-49 parents to get off the fence and write the Board to quit meddling in the curriculum.

John Stuart Mill said in 1867, “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” Barry Hicks

Colorado Springs

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