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  • Schools should stop teaching US history until they can get it right

    10/07/2022 10:22:28 AM PDT · by Fiji Hill · 54 replies
    Duluth News Tribune ^ | August 27, 2020 | LaShawn Ford and Charles V. Frederick
    We should stop teaching history in our schools. The way history is now being taught leads to a racist society, perpetuates white privilege, and overlooks the contributions of women and minorities. I ask school districts to immediately remove history curricula, books, and materials that unfairly communicate history until suitable alternatives are developed. Enslaved people built our young nation and made possible an economy that would throw off the control of the most powerful country then on earth, Great Britain. But, oh, at what a price. According to Bennett Minton in The Washington Post, some schools across the country intend to...
  • IL state rep. calls for "abolishment of history classes in schools" because they "lead to white privilege and a racist society"

    08/03/2020 7:53:53 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 44 replies
    DISRN.com ^ | 8/3/2020 | Adam Ford
    At a Sunday news conference, Illinois State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford (D), along with local leaders, called on the state's Board of Education to "abolish history classes in Illinois schools" because, he said, "current school history teaching leads to white privilege and a racist society." A news release distributed before the event claimed that "current history teaching practices overlook the contributions by Women and members of the Black, Jewish, LGBTQ communities and other groups." The lawmaker demanded history classes in the state immediately cease and remain abolished "until appropriate alternatives are developed." Concerned that current school history teaching leads to...