Commentary There are some things we should all be able to agree upon when considering a curriculum for the schools. First, we’d surely want it to be based on ideas and facts that are solid and settled, not the disputed theories of a fringe sect. Second, it should not be politically partisan, because nobody should want children to be pawns in political battles. And third, we’d want it not to stir up animosity—especially racial animosity—setting different groups of children against each other. Yet the program that the federal education department wants to promote, and the model ethnic studies curriculum that California’s state board of education has just approved, violate all three of these simple principles. The critical race theory (CRT) that is their inspiration is so far from being consensus settled knowledge, so bitterly partisan, and so divisive, that several states are banning it from their schools. And CRT’s stirring up …