According to the Hoover Institute, Tuesday, March 23, 2021, The California Department of Education (CDE) voted to adopt the fourth version of an ethnic studies curriculum after four years, three previous versions, and more than 100,000 objections. The objections are based on the curriculum which continues to be founded on critical race theory (CRT), which is the view that our legal, economic, and social institutions are inherently racist. https://www.cde.ca.gov
For Background: Critical Race Theory (CRT) derived from one of the main pillars of communist theory hammered out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and published in 1848 in the Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels believed only two classes of people existed: the oppressors and the oppressed. Pitting the two classes against each other would provoke a communist revolution. In education, teachers who teach CRT will view every subject through the lens of race, keeping in mind that one race is the oppressed and the other race is the oppressor. All existing thoughts on racial justice are to be challenged and altered to explain the struggles of the oppressed. - via Intercessors for America, 5-11-21
- Phyllis Couper, TVR Board Member