Texas, the new Florida

jahsoul357 said

I’m concerned for my kids education but not on the same lines that you are.

I don’t trust CRT because I believe that it will go light on a lot of issues (such as who has truly been the ones to have benefitted from the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments). And why do my kids need to hear anything pro or anti from a teacher anyway? If faith stays at home, political and social views should as well. Slavery and Jim Crow should never be excluded because that is a major part of our nations history. I mean, The Holocaust didn’t happen on our soil but that in every history book in most grade levels. But sadly, and not limited to Texas by any means, education (like everything else) has been politicized.

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Some issue only have pro and anti viewpoints though

It was either Texas or Florida that got in some trouble over suggesting they teach "both sides" of the Holocaust

Shouldn't ending slavery be a pro only topic? Is it possible to talk about Jim Crow, why it happened, what happened during that era and how and why it ended without bringing social and political views into the discussion (even if it's just the views at the time)?

And sometimes viewpoints can change, and what is called 'politicizing history' or 'woke history' is more a case of just simply removing the whitewashed sanitized version that had been taught for decades

When I was in school I learned nothing but good things about Christopher Columbus. I did the whole "in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue" thing

Over the past 10-15 years or so there's been a push to make it clear, there was much more to it than that