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What "we must value opinions
from all sides" leads to.
Texas schools are being told to teach
opposing views of the Holocaust.
19 Oct 2022
"Ive been trying to imagine what Gina
Peddy could have been thinking when, on
8 October, she informed a group of
Southlake, Texas, elementary school
teachers that, if their classroom
libraries included books about the
Holocaust, students should also be
steered toward books with "opposing
views".
The executive director for curriculum
and instruction for the Carroll
Independent school district, Peddy
later explained that she was simply
helping her staff comply with Texas
House Bill 3979. Signed into law on
1 September by Governor Greg Abbott,
the ruling prohibits educators from
discussing controversial historical,
social or political issues. If these
subjects do arise, HB 3979 mandates
that teachers "explore such issues
from diverse and contending
perspectives without giving deference
to any one perspective".
If teachers are obliged to tell their
classes that there is "another point
of view" about whether the Holocaust
occurred, must American history lessons
now also include books asserting that
the United States was never a slave-
holding nation or that racism ended with
the Emancipation Proclamation? If the
discussion surrounding a novel or story
leads a class to conclude that LGBTQ+
people are entitled to basic human
rights, must the class be asked to
seriously consider the opposing view:
that those rights should be denied to
anyone who differs from the heterosexual
norm?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/19/texas-holocaust-
curriculum-schools-hb-3979