{"id":5454,"date":"2022-04-25T13:48:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T17:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/imprint\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2022-04-25T13:48:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T17:48:39","slug":"the-importance-of-teaching-crt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/imprint\/the-importance-of-teaching-crt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Teaching CRT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Andreu Rydbom <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily, in some form or another, there is a debate regarding Critical Race Theory, which has recently become outlawed in the State of Florida and in many classrooms across the country. Some elected officials fear monger voters into believing that Critical Race Theory is a threat to education. However, we should view Critical Race Theory as a much-needed opportunity to focus on existing disparities in the public education system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The debates of Critical Race Theory have a serious impact on UCF students, current and prospective, potentially affecting their ability to feel they belong and find their place, but first we must assess what has been largely debated and how the theory has been discounted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Classrooms are places meant to foster innovation, but they end up being breeding-grounds for inequity. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Critical Race Theory is a way of communicating how American racism has shaped the classrooms unequally. Many students of public education from kindergartners to college freshmen have dealt with the inequalities that racism in the United States has placed upon the education policies in this country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education in the United States is not commensurate for each state, or within each state for that matter. The effects are amplified for minority students because the prejudice in this country is against them. Policies were meant to benefit white students, allowing for the families of white students to attain generational wealth caused by success in education and thus in a career setting. Inversely, regarding minority communities, they limited the access to institutions that will allow for the acquisition of generational wealth and the same foundations for success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public Education in the United States often is good for those with money, those with prestige and thus, with power. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We can see how this can be a problem \u2013 affluent people have much more money to give than the people who may be lower on the socio-economic scale, allowing for more resources afforded to the children attending schools within an area others can\u2019t access. This means more technology, and money to put forward for basic maintenance. Situations like these don\u2019t only exist in a hypothetical. The quality of education students receive is directly related to the economic status of the location, which works against the favor of many minorities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those students that receive more resources applied to their education, their place in the world may be easy to find, but for those children that don\u2019t have the resources the former does, their place in the world may not be as easy to find. Higher means of income allow for advanced opportunities. This money can help students to find their place, especially when compared to students lower on the socio-economic scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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