{"id":591916,"date":"2021-07-15T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591916"},"modified":"2021-07-15T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:51:40","slug":"7-lying-media-outlets-claiming-crt-isnt-being-taught-in-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/7-lying-media-outlets-claiming-crt-isnt-being-taught-in-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Lying Media Outlets Claiming CRT Isn\u2019t Being Taught in Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F7-lying-media-outlets-claiming-crt-isnt-being-taught-in-public-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591916&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1192787027.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Now that a public information campaign has decisively turned Americans\u2019 sentiments against Critical Race Theory, the media have engaged in numerous tactics to fend off the backlash from parents. One of their most common strategies has been to claim that there is no reason for concern, because no public school teaches CRT. Call it CRT denialism.<\/p>\n<p>In reality the nation\u2019s largest teachers union, the National Education Association, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nations-largest-teachers-union-says-it-will-teach-critical-race-theory-in-all-50-states-1400-school-districts\">promised<\/a> at its annual convention last weekend to \u201cshare and publicize\u201d information about CRT and to \u201coppose attempts to ban critical race theory\u201d in public schools. Nonetheless, many well-respected outlets of the legacy media have repeated the claim that America\u2019s K-12 classrooms are CRT-free. Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MSNBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joy Reid has arguably done more to spread CRT denialism than any other figure in the media. She maintains that Critical Race Theory, which grew out of Critical Legal Studies, exists only in classes designed for aspiring lawyers. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/here-are-5-ways-the-media-is-trying-to-mislead-you-on-critical-race-theory\">said<\/a> on June 10, \u201cThere\u2019s no teaching of [CRT] in elementary school. It\u2019s in law school.\u201d On the June 18 episode of \u201cThe ReidOut,\u201d she complained that Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott \u201csigned a law this week intended to ban Critical Race Theory from being taught in public schools, even though it\u2019s not being taught in any K-12 curriculums anywhere, including in Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CNN host Don Lemon has gone so far as to present educators as victims of overbearing parents who don\u2019t know their place. Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-media-has-entered-the-republicans-pounce-stage-of-critical-race-theory\">asked<\/a> the chairwoman of the Loudon County (Virginia) school board, Brenda Sheridan, \u201cHow frustrating is this for school, for educators around the country to be dealing with B.S. that they\u2019re not even teaching because it\u2019s being stirred up by politicians and propagandist on so-called news networks?\u201d The network is so committed to tamping down parental backlash over the curriculum that it reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/crt-teacher-crt-isnt-taught-in-schools\">quoted<\/a> Keziah Ridgeway, who \u201cteachers critical race theory in public high school,\u201d saying, \u201cCritical Race Theory is not being taught in schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NBC News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NBC News argued on the nightly news that parents had been hoodwinked, deceived, and mobilized by deep-pocketed conservative donors into assailing noble-minded school bureaucrats and administrators. \u201cVirtually all school districts insist they are not teaching critical race theory, but many activists and parents have begun using it as a catch-all term to refer to what schools often call equity programs, teaching about racism or LGBTQ-inclusive policies,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/critical-race-theory-invades-school-boards-help-conservative-groups-n1270794\">wrote<\/a> Brandy Zadrozny on June 15, in an online article based on her news segment. Now concerned parents aren\u2019t just racist, they\u2019re homophobic, as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>USA Today<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>USA Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2007\/04\/everythings_up_to_date_in_jers.html\">once<\/a> billed as \u201cAmerica\u2019s paper,\u201d crammed every allegation and assertion of CRT\u2019s advocates into a long, rambling, one-sided jeremiad that rambles over everything from the COVID-19 pandemic to Marjorie Taylor Greene and vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2021\/06\/07\/what-is-critical-race-theory-in-schools\/7558272002\/\">Critical race theory<\/a>&nbsp;is not being taught in most schools across America.&nbsp;It\u2019s a decades-old legal framework for examining laws that reproduce inequalities in society,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2021\/07\/03\/critical-race-theory-makes-school-board-meetings-political-ground-zero\/7785802002\/\">wrote<\/a> USA Today\u2019s Ryan Miller. His sources for this assertion are an employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center and a community organizer named Richard Gray.<\/p>\n<p>Miller blames parents\u2019 objections to CRT\u2019s divisive and inaccurate curricula on \u201canger\u201d and \u201cfears&nbsp;about&nbsp;critical race theory, stoked in national media and fanned by conservative think tanks and activists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaucous meetings around the country may appear to be driven by a growing group of worried families. But experts also point to well-funded conservative and libertarian think tanks using critical race theory as a catchall phrase to spook parents and gin up activism,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a \u2018Wizard of Oz\u2019 element to this, where you pull back the curtain and see it isn\u2019t just a groundswell movement of concerned parents, but a well-orchestrated political movement,\u201d said Gray.<\/p>\n<p>Gray, who denies CRT is transforming school lesson plans, <a href=\"https:\/\/steinhardt.nyu.edu\/metrocenter\/about\/who-we-are\">works<\/a> for the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even the world\u2019s largest and most respected news organization has not been immune to printing misinformation about CRT. \u201cThere is little to no evidence that critical race theory itself is being taught to K-12 public school students, though some ideas central to it, such as lingering consequences of slavery, have been,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/what-is-critical-race-theory-08f5d0a0489c7d6eab7d9a238365d2c1\">wrote<\/a> Bryan Anderson an AP article on June 24 titled \u201cEXPLAINER: So much buzz, but what is critical race theory?\u201d (Screaming capitals in original.) In another story on Tuesday, the AP\u2019s Collin Binkley <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/health-coronavirus-pandemic-racial-injustice-race-and-ethnicity-government-and-politics-ce1ca40ecbe5abf10afcc10864d1b3e9\">contrasted<\/a> crass GOP operatives with selfless teachers union leaders. \u201cCritical race theory has become a political rallying cry for Republicans who argue that it sows division and makes children feel guilty for being white. But Weingarten said the concept has mostly been taught at the college level and is not taught at the nation\u2019s elementary, middle and high schools,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CBS News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CBS News wrote that union president Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers \u201csaid critical race theory it is not even taught in elementary schools.\u201d CBS reporter Caitlin O\u2019Kane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/critical-race-theory-teachers-union-honest-history\/\">added<\/a> that \u201cCritical race theory is not typically \u2018taught in elementary and secondary schools because it is based in legal theory,\u2019 Jazmyne Owens, of public policy think tank New America, told CBS News. She said the wave of legislation \u2018is really aimed at erasing and whitewashing American history.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Politico played politics with CRT by recycling the worn narrative that Republicans ginned up the controversy for partisan advantage. Virginia \u201cRepublicans hope to leverage this issue to wrest away Democrats\u2019 control of all three branches of state government,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/07\/07\/could-a-school-board-fight-over-critical-race-theory-help-turn-virginia-red-498453\">wrote<\/a> Maya King. \u201cLast week, GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin even held a campaign rally in front of the Loudoun County school board building to decry critical race theory \u2014 even as the school board repeatedly denies teaching it. (Nor is it taught in school districts around the country where conservatives are attempting to ban it.)\u201d But the Politico article King <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/23\/trumpworld-critical-race-theory-495712\">linked<\/a> as proof that CRT is not taught in schools says, \u201cCritical race theory \u2026 is not taught in many of the schools where lawmakers are seeking to ban it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King signaled her real concern in the story\u2019s title, \u201cCould a School-Board Fight Over Critical Race Theory Help Turn Virginia Red?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>If these news outlets got something as easily verifiable as this wrong, what other issues are they shading? And why do they always seem to coincide with Democratic Party talking points?<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that a public information campaign has decisively turned Americans\u2019 sentiments against Critical Race Theory, the media have engaged in numerous tactics to fend off the backlash from parents. 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