As for the general idea of CRT, history itself is inherently political because history is full of people doing politics. So keeping politics out of history for kids is unrealistic at best. They would lose who knows how much confidence in institutions if they got to college and got told "so guess what, you got lied to. That stuff you got told about slavery was sanitized. Here's what really happened." Just tell younger people the general truth without going into the gory (pun intended) details until they're ready. And if they ask, do be honest and say "yes, there are some more awful details I didn't get in to that you'll learn when you're older."
I wasn't taught CRT in elementary school (duh, it's a college course) and it was a flawed education, but I learned a few important things. I understood that racism didn't end after the Civil Rights movement. If someone was racist now, that meant it still existed. I understood that a lot of white people were racist but didn't think that meant that I was, or my parents were. And I understood that I could do my part to prevent racism (as much as a little kid can) by treating everyone equally, and while I was theoretically capable of being racist, I was also perfectly capable of the opposite. And I think today's kids should be able to do the same without issue. Admittedly my definition of racism wasn't much more nuanced than my definition of bullying (from the anti-bullying videos they showed us) so I wouldn't be very good at recognizing it if I saw it. Again, flawed education, I probably should have got more education on racial bias at a younger age.
When I learned about unconscious bias in 11th grade and was assigned to look at my own, it was one of the most eye opening lessons I can remember getting and I'm really glad for it. It definitely sunk in more than most of the chemical formulas or velocity calculations.
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