‘Slavery was wrong’ and 5 other things some educators won’t teach anymore

[BidenPresident]

That fall, Wickenkamp repeatedly sought clarification from the Fairfield Community School District about what he could say in class, according to emails obtained by The Post. He sent detailed lists of what he was teaching and what he planned to teach and asked for formal approval, drawing little response.

At the same time, Wickenkamp was fielding unhappy emails and social media posts from parents who disliked his enforcement of the district’s masking policy and his use of Reynolds and Kendi’s text. A local politician alleged that Wickenkamp was teaching children critical race theory, an academic framework that explores systemic racism in the United States and a term that has become conservatives’ catchall for instruction on race they view as politically motivated.

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[BidenPresident]

Cannot refer to Christopher Columbus’s journal

“As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force,” Columbus wrote in October 1492, in a slice of the journal quoted by Zinn. “They would make fine servants. … With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want,” he also wrote.

But last school year, when the North Carolina teacher tried to give this lesson to her sophomore honors world history class, a parent wrote an email complaining that her White son had been made to feel guilty.

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[BidenPresident]

‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ and ‘Of Mice and Men’

But over the past three years, White parents began lodging complaints against “Huck Finn” in the teacher’s largely White and conservative town, she said. The teacher spoke on the condition of anonymity because her district forbids unsanctioned interviews with the news media.

The teacher said she received five complaints from White parents objecting to the n-word. She said several of her colleagues in the Wentzville School District reported similar objections.

 

[Joe Capitalist]

I'm a substitute teacher and last week, I read a book to my class. I don't remember the name or the story but there was a point where a hurricane hit a town and flooded many buildings.
One character said to another, "Well, that's Global Warming for you. What're you gonna do".
The other character replied with, "A lot more than we're doing now".

I was taken aback I was wondering if it was appropriate to make a political statement in a children's book.

 

[BidenPresident]

I'm a substitute teacher and last week, I read a book to my class. I don't remember the name or the story but there was a point where a hurricane hit a town and flooded many buildings.
One character said to another, "Well, that's Global Warming for you. What're you gonna do".
The other character replied with, "A lot more than we're doing now".

Teachers are burdened with dumb parents. Parents love to complain, but the rest of the year they don't care what their children are doing.

 

[Joe Capitalist]

Teachers are burdened with dumb parents. Parents love to complain, but the rest of the year they don't care what their children are doing.

I was very surprised to see those GW comments in a children's book and thought they were inappropriate. I think the parents would think the same. Butt I don't think that justifies banning the book. That's just way too extreme.