New rules are limiting how teachers can teach Black History Month

[Nevilledog]

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Stan Veuger
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“Teachers may also introduce Malcolm X but not read his speeches, mention soul singer Marvin Gaye but not discuss his "What's Going On" lyrics, or point out (..) Tulsa, Oklahoma, on maps but not talk about the racial atrocities that occurred there.”
Civil Rights leader Dr Martin Luther King, Jr and wife, Coretta Scott King lead demonstrators on their march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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New rules are limiting how teachers can teach Black History Month
Black History Month is here. So are critical race theory bans. Educators have to navigate this new world.
11:57 AM · Feb 18, 2022

https://www.axios.com/black-history-month-critical-race-theory-2e021dfb-8604-4d23-8a11-36069c93dde9.html

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Between the lines: Broadly written laws and proposals allow state officials to punish schools and educators for discussing racism and the history of people of color, critics say.

Those limits would allow teachers to mention that Brooklyn Dodgers infielder Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color line but not allow them to discuss why Black players were banned before him, Sharif El-Mekki, founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development, said.

Teachers may also introduce Malcolm X but not read his speeches, mention soul singer Marvin Gaye but not discuss his "What's Going On" lyrics, or point out Rosewood, Florida, or Tulsa, Oklahoma, on maps but not talk about the racial atrocities that occurred there.

In many cases, the toughest crackdowns could prevent students from learning about history that happened in their own backyards.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem recently introduced a bill to prohibit colleges and schools from teaching certain lessons on racial atrocities. The state is the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre of Lakota people by the U.S. Army.

State legislators in Alabama, where John Lewis was beaten by police during a 1965 voting rights march, are expected soon to take up a bill that would prevent colleges from teaching critical race theory.

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Jason Stanley
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Feb 18, 2022
We are not prepared for the consequences of this new McCarthy era in education. The laws that have already been passed, and the new ever more radical ones targeting higher education, will roll back freedom and liberty of thought for decades.

Jared Yates Sexton
@JYSexton
They’re really, really being undersold, especially as they’re being treated as local and red state issues. People don’t get that this is how it starts.
11:37 AM · Feb 18, 2022

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Watch Teachers quit their jobs in protest all over the country and be right to do so.

I Minored in History in College. My younger granddaughters will get the correct view of history. They need to hear the ugly along with the good to come to reasonable conclusions. We grandparents lived through some very interesting times. We saw and experienced first hand events that shape us and changed us. THAT cannot be ignored.

What State lawmakers are doing will have disastrous effects for decades to come.

[Nevilledog]

3. That's what they want. They'll declare public schools are the problem. Move to private only.

[Lovie777]

2. Are they going to limit the internet at homes?

social media on phones? Backfire city. It will prompt more interest.

History - it was illegal to teach black slaves how to read and write. Whites went to jail who defied that rule/law. See how that worked out.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R