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Mar 25 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
One year anniv.: In March of 2021, as right-wing politicians & media scaled up attacks on educators’ most basic responsibility — to teach young people accurately & truthfully — we launched a #TeachTruth pledge.

8,000+ teachers have bravely signed. ⬇️ 🧵

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Many teachers have faced steep consequences for signing the pledge.

Right wing websites have listed their names, along with the communities in which they work.

Their goals are clear: to incite harassment & spread fear.

As one teacher wrote, “This is modern-day McCarthyism.”
The right claims it is against "political indoctrination."

In fact, the anti-CRT bills take aim at lessons that do the opposite. The right seeks to suppress critical thinking and questioning.

This is what teaching people's history looks like ⬇️ .
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We just got an update from a teacher who'd been attacked last year by a school board member for signing #TeachTruth pledge.

Today he wrote: "I won my school's teacher of the year award from the students. Goes to show that students like having honest, difficult conversations!"
Below are some of the lessons the right does not want taught in schools.

Check out topics: colonial laws, resistance to enslavement, Reconstruction, redlining, healthcare, voting rights, climate justice, U.S. foreign policy, & more.

#TeachTruthSyllabus
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Mar 24
"Wicked . . . wretched . . . evil . . . hard . . . malignant.

Thaddeus Stevens has been called all these names, and more.

He can lay claim to being one of the best-hated men in our past."

-- Milton Meltzer in 1967 book for young people on the Reconstruction era legislator.
"The harsh judgments his enemies made in his lifetime still echo in the textbooks students use now.

What did Thaddeus Stevens do to deserve this?

He fought to establish free public schools.

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#tdih 1960 SC college students, labeled outside agitators & Communist for protests of segregation, were violently attacked by police & placed in a stockade.

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Watch video on link below and find related resources.
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