Unless Miguel Cardona knows nothing about what's happening in the schools he oversees, he is being dishonest and appears to reject the notion that schools should be transparent
CRT teaches our children how to be a racist by teaching them to discriminate based on color of skin, nationality, sexual orientation, etc. We're not teaching something everyone doesn't already know how to do. The problem already exists in every human being on this planet. What we need to teach is how wrong and hurtful it can be to those around us whom we should be embracing and loving and caring for. Just opening your mouth and calling someone a racist, makes you the racist. We need to teach everyone the consequences of racism. The pain and hate it causes, tearing down a persons self esteem and their ability to be a positive influence on society, friends, and family. Use our own history to demonstrate the harm racism can cause, not destroying our history, tearing down our statues, covering up the past, which does nothing but allow us to perpetuate the problem. We can't change history, it's behind us now. It's time to make a new history for ourselves which will create a future we can be proud of, as opposed to, a future that mimics the past doing nothing for any of us except "the same old thing" that will only take us down lower than we are right now! "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." Winston Churchill
I hardly think these cherry-picked examples show that CRT is being taught at a wide scale in classrooms.
You write "If you still remain skeptical and think that four examples are hardly sufficient to build a case against Cardona’s comments, please know that the examples are countless across the country in both public and private schools and if I wasn’t swamped with work and life, perhaps I’d set out to provide a more exhaustive list," but if CRT is the existential threat you claim it is, why not provide that list? Crowd-source it if you're too busy.
What I think you will find, though, is that it's not being taught to the extent you fear it is. (I also suspect that if you set out to find if some pernicious idea has found its way into American classrooms that you're bound to find it taught in a few places. Lotta classrooms out there.)
CRT teaches our children how to be a racist by teaching them to discriminate based on color of skin, nationality, sexual orientation, etc. We're not teaching something everyone doesn't already know how to do. The problem already exists in every human being on this planet. What we need to teach is how wrong and hurtful it can be to those around us whom we should be embracing and loving and caring for. Just opening your mouth and calling someone a racist, makes you the racist. We need to teach everyone the consequences of racism. The pain and hate it causes, tearing down a persons self esteem and their ability to be a positive influence on society, friends, and family. Use our own history to demonstrate the harm racism can cause, not destroying our history, tearing down our statues, covering up the past, which does nothing but allow us to perpetuate the problem. We can't change history, it's behind us now. It's time to make a new history for ourselves which will create a future we can be proud of, as opposed to, a future that mimics the past doing nothing for any of us except "the same old thing" that will only take us down lower than we are right now! "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." Winston Churchill
So in your mind equity = CRT?
I hardly think these cherry-picked examples show that CRT is being taught at a wide scale in classrooms.
You write "If you still remain skeptical and think that four examples are hardly sufficient to build a case against Cardona’s comments, please know that the examples are countless across the country in both public and private schools and if I wasn’t swamped with work and life, perhaps I’d set out to provide a more exhaustive list," but if CRT is the existential threat you claim it is, why not provide that list? Crowd-source it if you're too busy.
What I think you will find, though, is that it's not being taught to the extent you fear it is. (I also suspect that if you set out to find if some pernicious idea has found its way into American classrooms that you're bound to find it taught in a few places. Lotta classrooms out there.)