3 Apr 2022 2:40 am
School Speech Bans Came From Republicans’ Inferiority Complex About America
These laws create a false binary between “pro” and “anti”-American history, flattening all rational analysis and discouraging student engagement in the process.
Republican legislatures and governors across the country claim to be fighting the nefarious forces of “wokeness,” “critical race theory,” and The 1619 Project by passing laws that forbid the teaching of “anti-American” ideas in public schools. But nearly every one of these laws is written with such deliberate vagueness that their meanings can be interpreted in any number of different ways, while achieving the same effect: scaring the **** out of teachers who might want to get a little real with their American history lessons.
Everybody blames Mitch: McConnell scrambles to avoid blame for end of popular school lunch extension | Salon.com
These laws create a false binary between “pro” and “anti”-American history, flattening all rational analysis and discouraging student engagement in the process.
Republican legislatures and governors across the country claim to be fighting the nefarious forces of “wokeness,” “critical race theory,” and The 1619 Project by passing laws that forbid the teaching of “anti-American” ideas in public schools. But nearly every one of these laws is written with such deliberate vagueness that their meanings can be interpreted in any number of different ways, while achieving the same effect: scaring the **** out of teachers who might want to get a little real with their American history lessons.
Everybody blames Mitch: McConnell scrambles to avoid blame for end of popular school lunch extension | Salon.com