On the one hand, I am very leery of any sort of attempt by central legislative action to blanketly dictate what schools should teach or not teach, particularly “bans” on ideologies, and I doubt that the average Idaho Republican has a good understanding of this issue.
On the other hand, it’s undoubtedly true that some aspects of CRT (as actually practiced in the real world by its devotees and not disingenuously defended in fantasy-land) absolutely do violate existing anti-discrimination statutes. The constant use of racial segregation in gatherings, the instruction to students that they are all X because they belong to race Y and the requirement to regurgitate that back, the targeting of programs based on their lack of racial quotas, etc. I think that it would be better to go after these individual behaviors using the existing laws that they violate, rather than do something as dramatic as ban ideas by legislative action.
In Virginia, where a successful magnet school program was destroyed by replacing a blind admissions test with a racial quota during a secret meeting, for the explicit goal of punishing the school for admitting “too many Asians,” despite the fact that state law prohibits racial discrimination, mandates the use of admissions test for magnet schools, and requires open meetings, there is going to be no prosecution under existing laws since allies of the CRT disciples who performed the execution control the Attorney General’s office. One wonders why Republican-controlled Idaho can’t produce a different outcome.