>> I do see it as important in K-12 education > Academic freedom of teachers teaching a 2nd or 3rd grader how to read? Or of teachers of 6th graders learning g

>> I do see it as important in K-12 education > Academic freedom of teachers teaching a 2nd or 3rd grader how to read? Or of teachers of 6th graders learning geography. I share your concerns, but I'll take the difficult position here. Before CRT bogeyman there was the Common Core bogeyman. Tucker Carlson has Strong Opinions on how to teach math. I shit you not. Every time I flew through MCI I had someone in the terminal or on the lane strike up conversation (midwest is like that) and learn that I'm in a math-heavy field. They would then say some inane shit about math education. I would ask the last math course they took. The highest answer I ever got was Calc or Linear Algebra, and 90% of the answers were "I don't remember" or "algebra in high school". So, yeah. Third grade teachers need cover. Because even http://www.corestandards.org/Math http://www.corestandards.org/Math was politicized by cable news talking heads. Go read it, not knowing what it is, and explain to me why someone who hasn't thought about math in 20 years would reasonably have any sort of opinion that's not motivated by a cable news talking head telling you that the reason you don't understand fifth grade probability theory is not that you were woefully failed by the American education system and your kid is already outstripping you, but because Obama Socialist Math makes no sense.