If slavery was the only thing they studied in history, I'd be concerned. They should also be studying the history of Native Americans, the genocide of the Native American tribes, Indenture of Chinese immigrants, internment of Japanese-American citizens during WWII, etc.

"I'm happy to give him a 0 for the assignments he will not complete."

Well, this is a timely post. A group of educators in Texas approached the board of education with a proposal. When teaching about slavery, they are proposing to call it "forced relocation". Yeah, you heard that right. If Texas does ever manage to secede from the union, they could re-name their new country "Dumbfuckistan".

This is the ish that makes me mad about these people. You wanna know what age O started learning about slavery and racism, around 5 years old, that was the first time I got called a burnt piece of toast and had no idea what they meant, so when I asked my grandmother that's when I got the "talk." The "talk" is something that EVERY black kid gets and it usually starts around 5 years old (there's a really great hashtag on Twitter that basically had all black people share the first time they experienced racism and darn near all of us experienced a lot sooner than 3rd grade and our parents and grandparents had the wonderful pleasure (that's sarcasm) of explaining to us that from that point forward that's what we would have to deal with and why and everything else). So if black kids can learn as early as 5 years old, I'm pretty darn sure it's fine for all the other kids to learn it from 3rd grade on up.

What's "Apush"?

Florida has recently passed a law saying that slavery is now not part of its curriculum. Every book mentioning slavery is to be taken out of classroom. Ron DeSantis is an idiot. He also said approving the Covid vaccine for infants is “inappropriate”

Whilst I am very sympathetic towards the sentiment of this post . . . . . and wholly supportive of in depth teaching of this subject . . . . . there's another part of me that despairs of curricula nowadays (not with regards to this subject but in general). Subjects tend to be taught in too much detail and too specifically and, I think, it is just for the sake of passing examinations and not for the sake of learning. Personally I think school tables are the problem - I appreciate that government and parents want to have a way to quantify education but I'm not sure the current solution is the answer. Take, for example, WWII - this is a VAST subject and there's really no point in studying one little aspect of it. There's so, so many connections to other subjects (WWI, European politics, the Cold War, the depression, Republican/Democratic interaction, isolationism, American and British and Italian and French fascism, the EU) . . . . what I'm saying is we need to teach more broadly.

Kid fails the class due to an ahole parent. Nice.

I can't even begin to explain how angry this makes me. "anything but slavery" what?!

Meanwhile every German child since 1946 laughs in "WWII"

Maybe they want some cheese with that whine. Feel sorry for the kid, parent isn't doing him any favors

But, but what about my white privilege?? 🙄

In primary school, we started with the French Revolution in Gr 7, then to HS, where the Industrial Revolution was added, did French Rev in Gr 8, & Gr 9. I was so sick of it by this time. This was in South Africa. I'm not even mentioning all our local & colonial history. I wanted to know more about medieval history.

Do not think this is racist, she just wishes her son to be taught some other form of history after as few years studying the same thing.

This dude reminds me of the Family Guy bit about Germany. "There was nothing! Everyone was on vacation!" 🤦‍♀️🤣

Versus here in the UK where I was literally never taught a single thing about history

Ok. Next assignment on the mistreatment of Native Americans.

the Sent from my iPhone is the icing on the cake....