Posted on 07/21/2016 12:44:10 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
If the Chicago social-studies teacher Gregory Michie waits for a textbook to teach his students about the Black Lives Matter movement, the first seventh-graders to hear the lesson won’t be born for another seven years.
Despite the historical implications of that movement, bureaucratic timelines all but quash any possibility that students might learn about today’s events from an actual history textbook in the near future. According to Anthony Pellegrino, an assistant professor of education at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, many school districts receive new books on a seven-year cycle. However, in some states, schools don’t receive new books for 10 to 12 years, and the most current material in those books could be a few years old. Certainly digital textbooks shorten this timeframe, but physical copies lag far behind: In some districts like Michie’s, students are reading textbooks that don’t even contain the name Barack Obama.
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Should Students Learn About The Ku Klux Klan in School?
No difference here.
Do High Schools study terrorist organizations now?
BLM is a fart in a hurricane. It will last as long as Obama is around, and will disappear thereafter.
So-called ‘educators’ have completely lost perspective. Public education has been destroyed
If they are taught the truth, that BLM was born of a fabricated story and that they are a racist/terrorist organization.
ONLY government schools would try to justify crap like this.
Agreed. As long as they are teaching about the Aryan Nation and LA Raza, why not teach about BLM too.
Why not just teach bomb building, how to achieve permanent victimhood status, how to riot for a faux cause, looting, and pillaging instead? Same course.
Do they learn the truth about the KKK?
Will the books be depicting Christians with horns too, soon?
This country is giong to erupt.
German officials want to force their school kids to learn about Islam:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/german-officials-call-compulsory-school-islam-classes-axe-attack-train/
Only if they also learn about the Campaign for Moorish Dignity.
How about sticking with the TEN COMMANDMENTS...BLM falls under the 5th
Yes, when they do the chapter on terrorist organizations.
Sure, if they are taught the truth, rather than an ennobled, heroic lie. Fat chance of that.
I’d be happy if schools taught them to spell “black lives matter”.
Only f they are taught the TRUTH about the movement and the events that precipitated its formation.
“Should Students Learn About Black Lives Matter in School?”
The drooling morons I’ve seen teaching school should not be entrusted with such a task.
They could call the VFW and get some volunteers to come in, though.
What’s there to LEARN???
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