CRT: Why are people pushing lies instead of true and accurate history?

History is the study of past events. In my early days of school, I remember my 5th-grade teacher, who reminded us on a Monday morning through his inquiry approach to teaching that History was and still is, in my opinion. My then teacher's approach fits into what some would characterize as the Socratic approach, except that the teacher spoke most of the time and rarely allowed us, then students, to speak. However, the teacher was excellent; what he taught us then still serves as a guide in my work; many Kudos to him for shaping me into what I am today.

I can hear his voice stating, seat down and listen; as my then 5th grader proceeded that memorable Monday morning around 8 am in a class that I was privileged to be in, the 5th-grade teacher posed the question, "What is History? He immediately answered his question as he usually did, "History is the study of past events. The teacher immediately proceeded to the second question that he stated this way, "Why do we study History? Again, he swiftly responded, we study History to avoid the mistakes of yesteryears."

As I remember my 5th-grade teacher, I can hear his voice right now telling me that the current debate on CRT is meaningless at best and stupid at worst. As I think about the recent discussion of CRT and connecting it to the argument that occurred during my doctoral program as Dr. Michael Apple of the University of Wisconsin famously wrote on issues associated with curriculum, whose curriculum, whose version of History do we teach? Some others, including former Assistant Secretary of Education Dian Ravitch, argued and pushed for a Eurocentric curriculum, a position she seems to have changed because now she realizes the importance of teaching History truthfully, the whole History, and not water it down to reflect a view that may temporarily make one happy but full of lies as we in the wrongly driven argument by those who say, "We should not teach CRT because it makes a student uncomfortable." What a crap! The worst we can do is to cave in and teach our students what we know are lies. Lies would defeat the purpose of education as we know it, and it would put our students in a precarious situation of ignorant.?

To save our children, please stop the stupid debate and teach them true History, and I will leave you with this link as a guide to help you teach them authentic, accurate, and holistic History rather than lies and a watered-down version of the revisionists.?

Suppose you want to teach the History of African Americans in the United States and worldwide; I suggest that you do it right. In that case, you must start from August 1619, when a ship arrived at Point Comfort in Virginia carrying a cargo of between 20 and 30 "African captives, beginning a system of chattel slavery that would continue for 250 years."