Controversy in a local school district after what a Xenia board member said about Critical Race Theory.
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At least one school board member is worried about CRT being taught in Xenia classrooms, so the district’s superintendent and school board decided to put it on the agenda for Monday night’s meeting.
Many of the parents News Center 7 spoke with admitted they did not see the letter Superintendent Dr. Gabriel Lofton sent out about the meeting.
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Supports of the controversial education concept claim it is a way of understanding how past and present racism in America has shaped public policy.
Detractors claim CRT makes people focus on group identity over universal, shared traits and divides people into categories of oppressed or oppressors.