On July 6, both the Montgomery County Republican Committee and the Delaware County Republican Committee suggested that voters should elect Republican school board candidates because of their opposition to Critical Race Theory (CRT).
You have the ability to stop this in your community: it is absolutely critical to turn out this November and vote for Republican school board candidates. https://t.co/f2uu7bSgLZ
— MontCo GOP (@MontcoPaGOP) July 6, 2021
Whether or not Democratic-controlled school boards have actually embraced CRT is debatable, just as the definition of CRT itself is now subject to debate.
For Republicans, CRT has become a convenient code to describe any curriculum that teaches about race relations in a way that they consider to be unacceptable.
Teaching that Systematic Racism currently exists anywhere in America would be a prime example of something that Republicans would deem to be unacceptable, and evidence of a curriculum that is anchored in CRT.
On Tuesday (July 6),
The lack of clarity as to what CRT actually is and whether or not it’s being used as a guidepost by some school districts (like Lower Merion, for example), won’t stop Republicans locally, statewide and nationally from deploying it as their battle cry in 2021’s municipal elections. And if Republicans find that CRT wins for them in 2021, it’s safe to say that it will become THE dominant theme for them in 2022.