Everybody’s talking about critical race theory. But for how long?

Preoccupation with identity, one’s own or anyone else’s, is the stuff of tedium. I can imagine students, not just White, wondering whether it’s really necessary to view everything through the lens of race, which over time risks becoming predictable, formulaic and enervating — the antithesis of what learning should inspire. High schoolers and some even younger may be not fully formed, but they’re not stupid. They’ll soon enough understand that political activists posing as teachers are working out their grown-up issues at students’ expense.