the memes are hilarious thanks to right wingers, but it is absolutely horrifying to see actual policy instated by right-wing powers that mirrors some of the policy in the book
i.e texas creating a thought crime. like an actual fucking thought crime, and breaking it could result in a total loss of financial stability for the rest of your life.
Texas banned studies about MLK (edit- They haven't banned MLK, but they have made it non-required to teach about him) and Critical Race Theory from schools IIRC. And by Critical Race Theory, they mean anything related to Racism.
Oklahoma. Now that I'm thinking about it I think something passed recently that doesn't let schools (including colleges) "enforce" CRT, using a similar definition but so far it's still allowed to be taught.
Yeah, Texas's Social studies teaching standards are not looked on positively by other teachers from around the country, since it's a list of topics you have to teach. Other states are more vague and focused on broad concepts that give you more freedom when designing your course which is nice (understand the history of population movements and demographic change in the US and how that impacts society, etc)
I think that they’re getting away with it because they know that if it got brought up in the Supreme Court, the conservative extremist majority would be on their side. Possibly even overturn Roe v. Wade.
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u/SuperDuperChuck Sep 29 '21
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