Alabama Senate committee approves “divisive concepts” bill

March 9, 2022

The Alabama Senate Government Affairs Committee in a 6-1 vote approved to a bill that would prohibit the teaching of “divisive concepts.”

Senate Bill 292, introduced by Sen. Will Barfoot, R-Pike Road, doesn’t include the phrase “Critical Race Theory” but its definitions of what “device concepts” are clearly aims to ban the teaching of the theory, which educators in Alabama have said isn’t being taught in public K-12 schools, and in fact was banned by the State school board in October.

Critical Race Theory, taught in some graduate law classes, teaches that racism isn’t solely possible in an individual, but that racism is embedded in legal systems and policies.

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