In the latest attempts to undermine American history and promote lies, a group of “educators” in Texas proposed the word “slavery” be replaced in social studies curriculum.
A group of nine educators wanted to replace what is known as slavery with the term “involuntary relocation” and submitted the proposal to the state Board of Education. The idea was proposed for second-grade students. Immigrants who came to America from European countries, for example, would be considered people who came via “voluntary relocation.”
Texas is one of many states where right-wing lawmakers and educators have tried to remove race-related education from the classroom, following the recent move to ban “Critical Race Theory” from school education — a college-level course that is not standard in upper education, and certainly not elementary school.
The Texas State Board of Education rejected the idea on Thursday.
It must be noted this idea could make its way to Republican lawmakers, who have recently gone as far as solidifying homosexuality as an “abnormal lifestyle choice” in it’s official political platform, so the idea they would remove words like “slavery” from schools through legislative means isn’t farfetched.
More about the brainwashing attempts from the right can be found here.
Opinion: It’s Texas. It’s the same place trying to strip the state of any honesty in education. Good job by the BOE unanimously rejecting the idea; the board wasn’t all White. It’s disturbing the extent to which adults will go to use a political agenda to minimize racism to diminish African-American history and prevent children from understanding the difference between right and wrong. What if one of these children are bright enough to follow up with the most glaring question about colonialism: “What made the immigration involuntary?” Any person who gives into this politicizing of fundamental American education should have their teaching certification revoked. Shame on the GOP.
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