# Capture — not taught in schools

- **Claim filed:** “Critical race theory is not taught in elementary schools or high schools.”
- **Who:** Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers
- **URL:** https://www.aft.org/press/speeches/safe-and-welcoming-school-year-all
- **Date on page:** 2021-07-06
- **Publisher:** AFT
- **Captured:** 2026-08-16
- **Method:** saved HTML (`aft-2021-07-06.html`), official PDF (`aft-teach2021-speech.pdf`), CBS report (`cbs-2021-07-08.html`)

## Verbatim (AFT, 6 July 2021)

> Let’s be clear: critical race theory is not taught in elementary schools or high schools. It’s a method of examination taught in law school and college that helps analyze whether systemic racism exists—and, in particular, whether it has an effect on law and public policy. But culture warriors are labeling any discussion of race, racism or discrimination as CRT to try to make it toxic.

CBS, 8 July 2021, same quote.

## The other meter

Same AFT TEACH 2021 conference: Ibram X. Kendi on the program.

Pulitzer Center 1619 Project Education Portal — K-12 curricular resources.
Medill, 21 July 2020: “taught in more than 4,500 schools nationwide.”

Australian pair (already filed): ACARA AC9HS4K04 “viewed as an invasion”; Racism. No Way! white privilege and institutional racism, NSW DoE for all Australian schools.

## What this file does not do

It does not file “Weingarten banned history.” It files “not taught in elementary or high schools” against the K-12 materials that use the method she defined.