There’s a well publicized fight over AP Black History going on right now in Florida.

More broadly, books like Lies my Teacher Told Me have pointed to the long history of numerous failings of our history curriculum.

For sure - I think that is a tricky one, as I don't feel I can trust anyone's take on it. I do see some of the activism training vs genuine historical education as being extremely disadvantageous, but also of course that black history needs to be taught well as a significant part of American history.

I would argue that the existing state wasn't "genuine historical education": I made it all the way through high school without ever being taught the state I was educated in had outright banned Black residents in its constitution.

My high school had our class go across the river multiple times to visit the same plantation house. They would show how pretty the property was, and give a history of the people who owned the property and how important they were.

We never got to be anywhere near the slave quarters, and it was never once mentioned that dozens of black people were brutally slaughtered there with their heads put on pikes at the entrance.

It's absolutely a fair characterization.

There has never in the history of the United States been a curriculum containing CRT at the K-12 level because children don't have the background and capacity to understand it.

And by bringing it up at all, you're proving that you don't either.