Commentary On April 5, the Placentia-Yorba Linda School Board voted to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the district’s classrooms. Opponents of the ban said CRT actually was not being taught. Retorted Trustee Leandra Blades, who favored the ban, “To say that it’s not being taught, it’s just not true. My kids have been taught CRT.” Although presented as just a way of teaching about racial problems in American history, CRT instead is a type of Cultural Marxism that turns different races against one another. According to a Goldwater Institute study, “Critical Race Theory is a perspective on modern life—a worldview—that believes all the events and ideas around us in politics, education, entertainment and the media, the workplace, and beyond must be explained in terms of racial identities. … Even George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the U.S. Constitution itself are subject to being canceled out of American culture—such as being …