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They include How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi.Ĭruz reached triumphantly under his desk to produce copies of these texts. They include The End of Policing, an advocacy for abolishing police. Among the books that are either assigned or recommended, they include Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. Now Cruz said he found thatĪ little hard to reconcile with the public record because if you look at Georgetown Day School’s curriculum, it is filled and overflowing with critical race theory. Jackson had replied that she didn’t know, and that it was her understanding critical race theory was taught mostly at the university level. Earlier he’d asked her whether critical race theory was taught in K-12. Sharpe, a school desegregation case handed down the same day that addressed certain peculiarities unique to the District.Ĭruz struggled to recover by changing the subject to critical race theory. The District of Columbia wouldn’t desegregate its public schools for another nine years, and then only because of the Supreme Court’s rulings in Brown v.

Oof! GDS was, indeed, the first integrated school in the nation’s capital. The idea of equality, justice, is at the core of the Georgetown Day School mission. Georgetown Day School is a private school that was created when three white families, Jewish families, got together with three Black families and said that despite the fact that the law requires us to separate, despite the fact that the law is set up to make sure that Black children are not treated the same as everyone else, we are going to form a private school so that our children can go to school together. Black students were not allowed in the public schools to go to school with white students. Was founded, in 1945, in Washington, D.C., at a time in which, by law, there was racial segregation in this community. Next, leading with his chin, Cruz asked Jackson what she meant by “social justice.” Jackson thanked him for asking, then landed a nice clean roundhouse punch.

In a GDS publication, Jackson was quoted praising “the transformative power of a rigorous progressive education that is dedicated to fostering critical thinking, independence, and social justice.” The next day, Cruz repeated the quote, getting it mostly right but still juking it a little by substituting the word interdependence (more rad-lib, he perhaps thought) for independence. On Monday, Tennessee’s Senator Marsha Blackburn shamed Jackson for praising “the transformative power of progressive education,” a perfectly anodyne quote that nonetheless mangled what Jackson really said. The ham-handed manner in which the Senate Republicans presented their case furnished some high comedy.