I actually was taught this in public school - in the south, too. It didn't use the language of CRT, but we were taught about de facto and de jure segregation and their effects.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Something that amazed me after I graduated was how wildly varied grade school education is in the US.

I went to school in NYC, where we learned that Unions helped build America and FDR was a great President.

Shocking to meet people who were taught the exact opposite

[–] Dozzi92 6 points 5 months ago

Yes, sometimes feels like the untied states, because I'm not exactly sure what unites us, besides geographical borders. I'm from Jersey and I feel like the interior states are their own thing, the south is it's own thing, and the NEC, PACNW, and Cali are on somewhat the same page. You'd think education would be pretty consistent across the board, but states rights and all that, whatever it means.

[–] mkwt 5 points 5 months ago

I went to school in the south, and we did learn about this in school, but not necessarily in class.

My district was still litigating its original Brown v. Board follow-on lawsuit from the 1950s in the twenty-first century. To get released from the lawsuit, the district had to show that the racial composition at each school matched the overall average for the whole district within 10 percentage points.

That meant that each school needed to be 75-85% black enrollment, in a city that was 54% black overall. Where did all those white students go? They went to private religious schools and to the suburbs. This was obvious to any kid when you went to the sporting events.

[–] Marcbmann 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah this was taught when I was in school, but up north