A commission tasked with incorporating ethnic studies into Utah's K-12 curriculum heard comments Thursday split between people worried about topics like critical race theory and others advocating for communities' histories to be included.
SALT LAKE CITY — A state commission tasked with determining how to incorporate ethnic studies into Utah's K-12 curriculum heard public comments Thursday split between people worried about topics like critical race theory and others advocating for their communities' histories to be included., which was created by the Utah Legislature in 2022 as part of a bill that requires the state to include ethnic studies in core educational standards.
"We know what the real is; we've seen what is real and what is not. We've all been a part of a system that has included institutional racism and it still does today. We can't just wish it away, hope it away," she said. "It's not about harping on race; it's about recognizing that we're not in a post-racial society.
"I feel like as we educate our children, we can't put a burden upon one group of children over another based upon anything that took place in a time period in which they did not participate in," Renda said. "We want all history taught — the good, the bad and the ugly. However, we don't want it taught through the prism of critical race theory. We don't want it taught through the prism that there are, based on skin color, the oppressors or the oppressed.
"Lumping groups of color and lumping different identities to make everyone feel more comfortable is dangerous in the classroom, and is dangerous for those individuals and those students that we really want to succeed," Acosta said. "I don't go in and teach critical race theory.
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