Creeping CRT?

“It’s going to creep in in ways we don’t know.”

At the May 17 meeting of the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees, Joe Gaspari proposed Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a potential subject for a future board work session. Five months later, on September 20, a 45 minute discussion over CRT took place in the cafeteria of Saratoga Elementary School.

CRT, similar to vaccines and masks, has been a proverbial lightning rod in the ongoing culture wars both in and out of schools. According to an August 2021 article from the Brookings Institute, CRT was mentioned 1,300...