While I think many of these standards are good in teaching our children about respect and courtesy to all, I am very concerned about the peppering of Critical Race Theory and Social Justice throughout.  The standards make it clear that this is based on CRT and intersectionality.  I do not want Critical Race Theory to be taught as truth to my children, particularly in public school K-12.   I have read extensively about it and I find it to be anti-liberal and a recipe for divisiveness.  In liberal thought, we believe in equality - equal treatment of all persons regardless of their different histories or current situation.  Critical race Theory, however, embraces identity politics and an assumption that racism is normal and permanent, and the problem is primarily that people—particularly white people—are failing to see, acknowledge, and address it. CRT doesn’t promote equal treatment for all, but rather that the power group - white people - need to recognize that they are inherently racist (and only they, because as the group in power they are the only ones who can be racist) and minorities need to look for and point out any interactions that they perceive as being racists towards them - and the power group has to make amends for this. CRT does not make room for liberal thought or debate.  

The following standards are taken straight from Critical Theory:

SeA2: 1-2d, I can develop an awareness of multiple groups in society.

SeA2: 3-4d, I can describe the multiple groups in society that help create my identity.

DeM2: 3-4a, I can develop an awareness of and comfort with my membership in multiple groups in society

SeA2: 5-6d, I can develop an awareness of and comfort with my membership in multiple groups in society.

DeM2: 5-6a, I can describe my beliefs, values, and the multiple groups in society that help create my identity and inform my decision making process.

SeA2: 7-8d, I can comfortably talk about myself and positively describe my various group identities

SoA2: 7-8a, I can recognize and describe unfairness and injustice in many forms including attitudes, speech, behaviors, policies, practices, and laws.

DeM2: 7-8a, I can evaluate how my membership in multiple groups combine to make me who I am and that none of my individual groups on their own fully defines me.

SoA2: 9-10a, I can recognize that all people (including myself) have certain advantages and disadvantages in society based on who they are and where they were born.

SoA2: 9-10b, I can recognize that my conscious and unconscious biases how they affect my interactions with others.

DeM2: 9-10a, I can understand that all my group identities and the intersection of those identities create unique aspects of who I am and influence my decisions.

SoA2: 11-12a, I can recognize, describe and distinguish inequity and injustice at different levels of society.

SoA2: 11-12b, I can identify and work to address my own conscious biases and implicit (unconscious) biases.

I don’t agree with making children search out bias and injustice.  Why do we want to train our young people to read insult, hostility, and prejudice into every interaction?  By doing so we will train them to increasingly see the world as hostile to them and they will fail to thrive in it.

I also believe it’s the parents responsibility to teach values to their children, and the schools‘ responsibility to teach unbiased academics - teach the children to question, research, think and communicate on their own without slanting their views.  

Please rework these standards and keep CRT out of the schools.