This is the Kato Daily Podcast for Monday, June 21st, 2021. I'm Caleb Brown.

The fight over critical race theory as applied to public schools is a great deal like other fights over values and

identity and public school curriculum. A broad system of parental choice in education

would do a lot to lower the temperature of that fight and others.

Neil McCluskey directs Cato's Center for Educational Freedom.

We talked about the fight now playing out.

We have certainly seen, I think, discussion about, we used to call it political correctness.

Now we are giving different names, maybe more specific to the particular thing we're talking

about.

But for decades now, we're talking about. But for decades now we've seen

discussions about what can we say, what can we not say, how do we understand the way

power works in society in government.

We started talking about cancel culture.

We started talking about white privilege and lots of different things.

Now most of that discussion was focused on higher education.

But what we've seen in the last couple of years, maybe the last year and a half,

probably sparked by things like the George Floyd murderer is K through 12 schools

school district but not just school districts they're also private schools

talking more about things like white supremacy, like implicit bias, and trying to come up with

policies that would confront those things.

And we've seen now a response to that because the idea that there's implicit bias, which

means that we may not be biased consciously, we try hard maybe not to do that but our subconscious

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