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Related: About this forumVelshi "The American Public Education System Has Lost The Plot" - MSNBC
&t=208sTeachers in the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas recently took part in a training session on new guidelines for what books they are allowed have in their classroom libraries to line up with the new regulations in the Republican Texas House Bill 3979, and its soon to be updated version, the Republican Texas Senate Bill 3.
They were told if they had books on the Holocaust, they need books with opposing views and other perspectives as well. It is crucial for students to learn and discuss different perspectives and how and why bad things happen in history - including genocides, war crimes, and slavery -- in order to better recognize and respond to them the future. There is a way to discuss important events in history, and to learn how to think critically about different perspectives.
But once that perspective includes placing opposing views of the Holocaust on the same level as the (almost) universally accepted truth, the American public education system has lost the plot.
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Velshi "The American Public Education System Has Lost The Plot" - MSNBC (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Oct 2021
OP
Is that really what the 'US public school system' says is crucial? Or one dickhead in TX?
Hugh_Lebowski
Oct 2021
#1
Incorrect. The REPUBLICAN PARTY has lost the plot. THEY are the ones requiring this.
CousinIT
Oct 2021
#4
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. Is that really what the 'US public school system' says is crucial? Or one dickhead in TX?
Xoan
(25,320 posts)3. Maybe focus more on school systems that haven't.
CousinIT
(9,241 posts)4. Incorrect. The REPUBLICAN PARTY has lost the plot. THEY are the ones requiring this.
Their objective, per Koch Bros et al is to DESTROY public education, and instead have only private, religious or charter schools to teach evangelical / American Taliban and right wing extremist ideology.