Issue significance

I can understand why a candidate for Governor might want to make public education a central issue. Teachers are drastically underpaid in many states, schools are underfunded, the gap in achievement between kids coming from poor and wealthy families is increasing, etc. However, when a candidate focuses on a vague and pretty much made-up issue such as critical race theory, even a very pro-public education person like me must just shake his head. A perspective has been falsely translated from the training in law schools because it has a scary sound to many white Republicans to issues such as the topics of history class and the selection of literature in English. At least, forget CRT and decide if you are against denying slavery and want to ban books by recognized scholars. Such topics are less important than the discussion of the Common Core and Modern Math and I am guessing voters have little clue what these topics involve either.