Texas Senate drops "White Supremacy is bad" requirement from education bill

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Texas Senate votes to nix teaching requirement calling white supremacy 'morally wrong'

The Texas state Senate has passed legislation that would repeal requirements to teach the history of white supremacy and the ways “in which it is morally wrong,” among other lessons pertaining to prominent people of color and women.

The Republican-led upper chamber passed the measure, known as Senate Bill 3, in a 18-4 vote on Friday.

I guess with all the brouhaha over CRT, we can't afford to expose our children to such a controversial idea...

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I definitely think history class should be impartial and give multiple viewpoints. I don't know what racial/cultural relations are like in Texas but would it be easy enough to bring in native and other cultural guest teachers in to give alternative views? Or, have a rotation of history teachers who all come from different backgrounds? Or require history teachers to have relationships and knowledge of different cultural interpretations as a requirement for the job?
 
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What does that teaching entail? Do you really believe students of today need to be taught that racial supremacy is wrong? C'mon!

Apparently it's far too radical an idea for the Texas Senate to want to touch.
 
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Obviously they are teaching a lot more than just the idea that racism is bad; after all who really needs to be taught this today?

Apparently not Texas students... we hope.
 
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Obviously they are teaching a lot more than just the idea that racism is bad; after all who really needs to be taught this today?
How did you learn that racism is bad? Have you always known, or did someone teach you this?
 
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I definitely think history class should be impartial and give multiple viewpoints. I don't know what racial/cultural relations are like in Texas but would it be easy enough to bring in native and other cultural guest teachers in to give alternative views? Or, have a rotation of history teachers who all come from different backgrounds? Or require history teachers to have relationships and knowledge of different cultural interpretations as a requirement for the job?
So like have a Grand Dragon of the KKK come in to provide their interpretation, and then another month maybe a Nazi to talk about Hitler's accomplishments, that kind of thing?
 
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I guess they're going with the "good people on both sides" approach.

I suspect it's closer to the "schools should just be teaching the facts and not moralizing" approach.

Of course, these are usually the same people who use the "schools have been going downhill since they kicked God out" approach, which leaves one to wonder what they ever expected Him to do in there...
 
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I suspect it's closer to the "schools should just be teaching the facts and not moralizing" approach.

Of course, these are usually the same people who use the "schools have been going downhill since they kicked God out" approach, which leaves one to wonder what they ever expected Him to do in there...
Teach? I doubt He'd be best employed working the cafeteria...
 
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Teach? I doubt He'd be best employed working the cafeteria...

I dunno...school budgets being what they are, a "loaves and fishes" trick wouldn't go unappreciated...
 
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So like have a Grand Dragon of the KKK come in to provide their interpretation, and then another month maybe a Nazi to talk about Hitler's accomplishments, that kind of thing?
Assuming most Texan history teachers are white and/or initially learned history through a white lens, I meant bringing in Native, Black, and Mexican viewpoints.
 
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How did you learn that racism is bad? Have you always known, or did someone teach you this?
I learned from the same people who taught me that murder was bad, rape was bad, and countless other acts of evil are bad; I learned from my parents and society. Ya don't need a special course in school to learn these things.
 
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Assuming most Texan history teachers are white and/or initially learned history through a white lens, I meant bringing in Native, Black, and Mexican viewpoints.
I think it would be a mistake to assume all "white lenses" are the same, or that all Native, Black, and Mexican view points are the same.
 
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Change the word "white" to "racial" and I think that would have removed the bias and more people would be accepting of it.

Perhaps, but the same people who would have been temporarily placated by a name change would expect "equal representation" in the lessons.

And between displacing the Native Americans, Slavery, Segregation, Jim Crow, Internment camps, etc... there aren't enough counter-examples to go around.
 
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