CRT will destroy America's place in the global economy...

The entire concept of critical race theory is to level the playing field, but nobody benefits when equity demand everyone be aboard the same sinking ship

American exceptionalism may die with CRT

Critical race theory. systemic racism, equity over equality.  The nutshell definition of CRT is to demand that all inequities in our country are the direct result of systemic racism and that the only way to fundamentally change anything is to abandon the constitutionally protected concept that everyone is entitled to equal opportunity rather than an equal result. 

While all this might start by providing equal opportunity, there is never going to be a guarantee (nor can there ever be a guarantee) that two people with identical opportunities will end up in the same place. In fact, such a concept by nature is not only unrealistic, but quite literally impossible.

But that is what CRT demands. Not equity of opportunity. They want equity of results. 

In Boston, there was a group of parents who sued the school board over changes in how they chose students for their prestigious "exam schools" which are basically highly accelerated public schools. Whereas the schools used to pick students based on academic and test scores, they more-less ditched that concept in favor of a zip-code quota. Now certainly the students chosen will be at the top of their zip-code, but not necessarily at the top of the state. 

Now, the argument will be that this is a means to pull the students from certain zip-codes up and allow a more diverse opportunity to succeed. But what it is really doing is pulling down the most highly advanced students by diluting the accelerated schools (which will no doubt have to teach differently to accommodate for less advanced students) and by taking other highly advanced students and leaving them in standard schools. 

While this may seem "fair" to certain woke liberals who are out to stick it to the White and Asian kids who they believe are unfairly getting ahead due to systemic racisms, what it is really doing is making harder for Americans to compete in the global market? You think China, India, or other major economic rivals are using a "zip code quota" to determine which or their students gets accelerated learning opportunities? 

The reality is that you cannot create equity in result by pushing everyone up to the front. The reality is that you need to push some people forward while pulling others back to ever really gain an equity of result. You will never have anyone who is truly exceptional when there is an equity of results.  

That is precisely what the Boston School system is doing with their decision to no longer have the most accelerated students make up the student body of their accelerated schools. They are reducing the chance that highly exceptional students will make it out of that school. Not that some sort of racial equity might not be an admirable goal in theory, but in reality this will do little more than drop our current crop of students further behind our international competition in terms of education. This naturally leads towards our top engineering, medical, and tech jobs either being outsourced or given to immigrants or foreign citizens here on work visas. It also means that many of the top scientific and other advancements will start to migrate to areas of the world where education is still provided by ability rather than equity.

Again... our economic competition (China, India, etc) are not looking to create any sort of "equity" of educational results. They are pushing for exceptionalism. Just as America once did.