Behind the latest GOP restrictions on race teaching: A hidden, toxic goal

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Awful: GOP legislatures are dramatically accelerating restrictions on how teachers discuss race. A new report finds dozens of new proposals in 2022 alone.

One would ban "anti-American ideologies" without defining them! That invites real abuse.

New piece:

washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Behind the latest GOP restrictions on race teaching: A hidden, toxic goal
How GOP legislatures hope to remove big questions about race and the U.S. from the agenda entirely.
9:00 AM · Jan 24, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/24/new-study-gop-laws-restrict-teaching-race/

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Glenn Youngkin’s victory in the Virginia gubernatorial election persuaded Republicans that there’s political gold in attacking teachers for supposedly indoctrinating the nation’s children about race. So in GOP-controlled state legislatures, efforts to place new restrictions on teachers are accelerating.

But behind these efforts lie specific trends that could prove particularly toxic. The risk: They may make teachers believe they are on such thin ice that they end up whitewashing the U.S. past rather than dare to communicate hard truths about it.

That’s the key takeaway from a new report from PEN America on the latest batch of restrictions moving forward in GOP legislatures. The report shows that these efforts are expanding and getting more pedagogically pernicious in their goals.

The report’s top-line finding: Dozens of proposals have already been introduced this month to limit how our nation’s racial past and present are taught. That’s striking enough, but what’s underneath these efforts also matters.

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[katmondoo]

1. If I had young Grandchildren I would teach them about Hitler and the Holocast.

I would have books everywhere in my home about the years 1933 to 1945. I was 14 when the War ended, it was only after the war that I started to read about what happened in Europe starting in 1933. I am still interested as so much happened in every European Country.