southernhybrid
Contributor
I debated about where to put this thread and considered adding to the one on Critical Race Theory, but since this is highly political and mostly associated with the Red states in the country, I decided to put it here. If mods think it belongs somewhere else, feel free to move it.
I'm giving a rather long article that gives many examples of how teachers are being silenced by parents and politicians when it comes to teaching things like Women's Rights, Slavery, Racism etc.
Please read it if you want to comment. I'll quote some examples from the article.
https://wapo.st/3mvp6uL
There's a lot more examples in the article. I find this frightening. When I was a child, I wasn't taught all of the horrors of American history, but at least I was taught that slavery was wrong. Your thoughts.
I'm giving a rather long article that gives many examples of how teachers are being silenced by parents and politicians when it comes to teaching things like Women's Rights, Slavery, Racism etc.
Please read it if you want to comment. I'll quote some examples from the article.
https://wapo.st/3mvp6uL
Excerpts from Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Passages from Christopher Columbus’s journal describing his brutal treatment of Indigenous peoples. A data set on the New York Police Department’s use of force, analyzed by race.
These are among the items teachers have nixed from their lesson plans this school year and last, as they face pressure from parents worried about political indoctrination and administrators wary of controversy, as well as a spate of new state laws restricting education on race, gender and LGBTQ issues.
“I felt very bleak,” said Lisa Childers, an Arkansas teacher who was forced by an assistant principal, for reasons never stated, into yanking Wollstonecraft’s famous 1792 polemic from her high school English class in 2021.
The quiet censorship comes as debates over whether and how to instruct children about race, racism, U.S. history, gender identity and sexuality inflame politics and consume the nation. These fights, which have already generated at least 64 state laws reshaping what children can learn and do at school, are likely to intensify ahead of the 2024 presidential election. At the same time, an ascendant parents’ rights movement born of the pandemic is seeking — and winning — greater control over how schools select, evaluate and offer children access to both classroom lessons and library books.
In response, teachers are changing how they teach.
There's a lot more examples in the article. I find this frightening. When I was a child, I wasn't taught all of the horrors of American history, but at least I was taught that slavery was wrong. Your thoughts.