This is a great summation of how we wound up with a Confederate rewrite of American history in our cities via monuments to the treasonous South, and in our textbooks, since the “lost cause” narrative bled out of just the South into K-12 education nationwide for decades.
https://twitter.com/synnlawlz/status/1404458398574387202
Thankfully, teachers today have the chance to teach accurate history that gets past the sing-song storytime that omits the violence in places like Tulsa and fails to give context to the residual racial strife that we still see today, and that now poses a national security threat.
These Republicans who are demanding that we hide history from students aren’t helping kids to be smarter or more informed. They’re trying to lock them into an era that’s already gone. And a lot of these kids will find out the truth anyway.
We’re not North Korea or China. We don’t need state-mandated “patriotic education” and teachers threatened if they dare to try to teach the truth.
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