Fri Aug 5, 2022 – 3:45 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Democrat Texas gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke came out against oversight of public school history content during a recent campaign stop.
“What if we treated that teacher with the respect that she has earned, that she is owed, that we all want to give?” O’Rourke asked a crowd of supporters. “We don’t need to tell her what version of history she is allowed to teach in a classroom. We don’t need to scare the parents of those kids… about something called CRT that I’ve never heard of before last year.”
Beto O’Rourke: “We don’t need” parents telling schools they can’t teach critical race theory in classrooms pic.twitter.com/sSPEVJKBM7
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 3, 2022
Instead of attacking teachers, I’ll be a governor who has their backs.
Instead of defunding our public schools, I will fully fund them.
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) June 17, 2022
CRT refers to critical race theory, the doctrine that race is a “socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour,” and that “racism is inherent in the law and legal institutions of
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