THE 3 R’S – NOT CRT

Sliwa: Teach kids basics

Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa said Tuesday that Mayor de Blasio’s Department of Education should prioritize reading, writing and math, not critical race theory, a doctrine that posits that racism underpins America’s history, laws and institutions.

“We’re saying hold on a second . . . Children have lost a full year. You’d think we’d want to be focused on the basics: reading, writing, arithmetic,” Sliwa (inset), a father of three public-school students, told The Post Tuesday.

Sliwa joined Public Advocate candidate Tony Herbert, former congressional candidate Scherie Murray and others in lower Manhattan to call attention to their claim that critical race theory is “starting to creep into the curriculum” at city public schools.

“Most importantly, we have to have a school system that brings everyone together,” Sliwa said on Chambers Street outside DOE headquarters in the old Tweed Courthouse.

“No CRT entering into our curriculum,” the longshot mayoral contender demanded.

“Everything is in reverse in what it should be, now that finally our children are able to get back into a classroom,” the Guardian Angels founder said in a phone interview before the press conference.

“This is dividing us, this is not uniting us,” he added of racism’s history in the United States being taught in schools.