CRT

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell got it a little hot water when she said that Governor DeSantis doesn't want schools to teach about slavery when he banned the teaching of CRT. This happened because she failed to understand what CRT is all about. CRT says to teach about the 400 years of slavery in the United States. Teaching history says to cover the 400 years of slavery and then follow that up with the 160 years of history since slavery ended. Some teachers like to end the subject when slavery ended in 1865 and leave the White students in the room feeling guilty. This happens more frequently when talking about the treatment of native Americans but in either case teaching history should mean telling the whole story not just part to leave a false impression. I have witnessed this kind of teaching and the teacher seemed to get some special satisfaction.