Should Critical Race Theory be taught at the high school level?

Asked by ABC 17 News

654 Votes

Should Critical Race Theory be taught at the high school level?

26%

Yes Yes

74%

No No

26%

Yes

Teachers should be allowed to use Critical Race Theory as another tool to help teach students US history.

Teachers should be allowed to use Critical Race Theory as another tool to help teach students US history. Show Less

4 Comments

Andrew Patchell

Ignoring the impact of race and racism in history doesn't make it go away; it just makes you ignorant.

Harry D

White people are evil and privileged, especially conservative, Christian, heterosexual white males, they are the worst. White people need to be guilt tripped from an early age that they need to give back to liberals and all people of color. CRT makes whites easier to control so don't fight back.

Will Mason

What an astonishingly racist comment.

Max DeYoung

This is true Harry. And only a liberal can understand this. lol. Those of us that are Veterans, know this more than anyone else. Tomorrow is Veterans Day. All Americans should celebrate accordingly.

Letitia DenHartog

I believe today's high school students can handle the information and, hopefully, it will affect their leadership for the future.

Max DeYoung

Todays high school students are the weakest, most self centered, most brain washed students ever. Most can't maintain a thought for more than ten seconds.

Holly Page Frazee

If you had a history class, you know how terrible the US treated other races and ethnicities. The only difference is a lot of things were left out, like the Oklahoma massacre. Of course it affected our laws & institutions. This is not a new concept.

74%

No

Teachers have been teaching US History without the use of Critical Race Theory and they can continue to teach without it.

Teachers have been teaching US History without the use of Critical Race Theory and they can continue to teach without it. Show Less

11 Comments

Debra Riffle

This continual focus on race is taking us back to a segregated, dark, racist place. It needs to stop.

Max DeYoung

It's part of the Democratic plan to maintain hate and racism, thereby keeping the slaves on the welfare plantation. They don't mind putting white people on the plantation either, as long as they have a plantation, where hate and discontent can be maintained.

Will Mason

They are teaching children to hate one another.

Max DeYoung

Harry is being sarcastic. He agrees with you. Lighten up.

Russ Burton

its promoting racism

Marisa Hagler

We are teaching children they are oppressed or oppressors based solely on skin color. That is the definition of racism. This country is going backwards with CRT and promoting hate and racism against white people mind blowing madness!

Max DeYoung

Anyone caught teaching this crap, should be treated as a domestic terrorist and exiled from our nation.

William

Because it is a racist and goes against the fundamentals of equality.

Should the attorney general sue schools that renew mask mandates?

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936 Votes

Should the attorney general sue schools that renew mask mandates?

25%

Yes Yes

75%

No No

25%

Yes

Attorney General Eric Schmitt says schools that bring back mandates during the omicron surge are violating state law and has threatened to sue.

Attorney General Eric Schmitt says schools that bring back mandates during the omicron surge are violating state law and has threatened to sue. Show Less

10 Comments

Wendy Kauffman

Masks don’t work!

Adam Schrader

Then please, please continue to not wear a mask. Get covid. Need hospitalization. Put your family and friends through it. Make the hospital staff issues even worse. Eventually die. Thin the heard

Harry D

It is time for the panicked, fear mongering, over-reaching, non-science backed COVID polices to end. CDC says fabric masks don't work. S Africa scientists say booster shots, even continuous IV booster drip, are not effective on Omicron. END all COVID .gov enforcement NOW. AG must sue the tyrants.

Jeffrey T. Spaulding

True sheeple tyrannical rhetoric. Hahaha! 🤣

Max DeYoung

If you Google "sheeple", then go to shopping, there is some very interesting items.

Max DeYoung

Actually, he should sue the individuals that make this decision, not the schools. The students and the taxpayers should not be punished for the actions of other peoples stupidity.

Lisa Gore

Parental rights and the students rights are at stake. No school board member has the right over legislators to force this. Missouri’s emergency is over. The alarmists need to start moving on to saving our country from Brandon.

Max DeYoung

Sheeple can't function, without constant guidance, and their ceremonial masks, and other forms of safety equipment, such as hand sanitizers, etc., etc....

Mark Cunningham

Before forcing students to wear masks they should do online learning. The bottom line is the virus is not any deadlier than the flu for young people. If teachers want to wear a mask do so, but there should be no mandate.

75%

No

Schools that have brought back mask requirements say they need them to slow the virus' spread through the school and to have enough staff to operate.

Schools that have brought back mask requirements say they need them to slow the virus' spread through the school and to have enough staff to operate. Show Less

9 Comments

Sandi Wyatt

Let the people in each individual district who know the conditions in that district make decisions for them. Politicians need to stop interjecting where thy do not belong just to further their career. It appears they have no regard for what is best for the people. Shameful

Jeanne Thomas

He should not be wasting the state's funds for this. The school administrations know what is best for them and their schools. These are different times. Our children should remain safe, as deemed necessary to the current situations.

Lisa Burnop

Let the schools handle what is best for them. He is only doing it for his own political gain while running for Senate. I would think he would have more urgent matters to handle than attacking our schools.

Lisa Gore

CPS has no legal authority to continue fear-mongering. Cloth masks, the vaxes don’t work, online learning stunts learning and developmental stages, but keep living in fear if it makes you feel better. Mass Formation Psychosis is real. Eric Schmitt does a great job!

Adam Schrader

He needs to keep his nose out of this. Thank goodness the local schools have enough sense to do what needs to be done and keep our kids safe. Learning from home and being healthy is far better than being in an unhealthy environment and potentially making others seriously ill

Max DeYoung

Eric will be a bigger problem for the Socialists, when he becomes your Senator.

Jack L

Adam,here is an interesting site to visit https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/

R Talbott

The Attorney General threats of suing school districts, who are trying to better control illness at their LOCAL LEVEL, should be considered overreach. And any school district who is sued should successfully sue the attorney general’s office for any expenses/damages arising from spread of disease.

Kimberly Wright

Doesn't Mr. Schmitt have more important work to do than interfere with schools that are trying to make it safer for their students and staff so they might avoid having to resort to virtual learning.

Jack L

Let the schools decide about mask mandates. Schmitt is only getting involved in this for political reasons. He should be fighting crime, not high schools

Did you get the test emergency alert sent in error Tuesday?

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389 Votes

Did you get the test emergency alert sent in error Tuesday?

90%

Yes Yes

10%

No No

90%

Yes

12 Comments

Megan Williams

I got the alert, then a call from my husband asking where Gotham City, MO was. lol the googleing was real

Jack L

I hope they don`t plan on sending out a lot of these phone alerts. The weather alerts they put on TV constantly warning us that it`s raining in Joplin are annoying enough//

Harry D

I was actually entertaining Barbara Gordan when she got a test message and had to suddenly leave. That's when I heard the sound of the Bat Phone ringing in my study. It was Barb's Dad, he said the Joker was spotted putting higher price tags on smaller items at the local stores. To the Bat Cave...

Kevin Wilkins

Yes my wife and I did get it and it was hilarious

Lisa Gore

Funny how IlTrumpo tweeted I’m Batman, just having some fun, 2 hours prior to the Batman-related Alert...ijs.

HelenHighwater

I was waiting for Batman to come and save the day.

Max DeYoung

In his eighteen wheeler?

Judy Martin

We both got the 'emergency' alert and the noise scared us half to death. Then we got the terrible noise again when they said they were cancelling it.

Max DeYoung

From Gotham City, Missouri. It does not exist. More loss of faith, in our government agencies.

Jack L

Gotham City is the fictional city that Batman worked out of. Must have been a joke

Harry D

Must have been the Joker, you mean.

Max DeYoung

Batman works out of Washington DC now, when he's not driving an eighteen wheeler, or saving Private Brian

10%

No

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ABC 17 News

Should Critical Race Theory be taught at the high school level?

26% Yes Yes

74% No No

26% Yes

74% No

Should the attorney general sue schools that renew mask mandates?

25% Yes Yes

75% No No

25% Yes

75% No

Did you get the test emergency alert sent in error Tuesday?

90% Yes Yes

10% No No

90% Yes

10% No

26%

Yes Yes

74%

No No

26%

Yes

74%

No

25%

Yes Yes

75%

No No

25%

Yes

75%

No

90%

Yes Yes

10%

No No

90%

Yes

10%

No