But their initiatives appear partly driven by statistics that show poor outcomes for Black students, whose rates of high school suspension and dropping out are as much as twice those of white students. Two of those boards - in Toronto and neighbouring York region - did not respond to requests for comment. In Ontario, at least, some large school boards have recently taken on ideas that form part of critical race theory, though largely without referencing the term. It’s since become a rallying cry for Republicans across America, with Youngkin quickly outlawing CRT in schools, saying “what we won’t do is teach our children to view everything through the lens of race.” The Hamilton board’s draft Grade 2-3 lesson guidelines say their aim is to negate the “insidious” colour-blind practice “ by attempting to bring race into the conversation in primary classrooms.”
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One of the key tenets is that racism is “ordinary,” not an aberration, and that legal systems effectively promote the supremacy of white people over other races, even if their stated goal is equality.Īnother is that colour blindness - the notion that everyone should be treated the same regardless of race - is itself a form of racism as it ignores the social and legal factors that can disadvantage people of colour. campuses, as academics concluded that advances brought about by the civil rights movement had stalled and new thinking was needed to combat “subtler forms of racism,” according to a leading primer on the topic by professors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. The theory emerged in the mid-1970s at Harvard University and other U.S. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.