States now vying to be the worst state in the union

A Texas school district official told educators if they kept books about the Holocaust in their classrooms, they would have to also offer “opposing” viewpoints in order to comply with a new state law.

In an audio clip obtained by NBC News, Gina Peddy, the executive director of curriculum and instruction for Carroll independent school district in Southlake, offered the guidance to teachers during a training on which books teachers can keep in classroom libraries.

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The training came after the Carroll school board had reprimanded a fourth-grade teacher after parents complained about a book on anti-racism in her class. And it followed the passage of a new Texas law that requires teachers who discuss “widely debated and currently controversial issues of public policy or social affairs” to examine the issues from diverse viewpoints without giving “deference to any one perspective”.

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Twenty-two states had passed or were considering laws to ban or restrict conversations about race and racism in public school classrooms as of August. In July, Iowa passed a law banning educators from teaching content that could lead to “discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of that individual’s race or sex”. Florida passed a law earlier this year banning critical race theory, which it says claims “racism is not merely the product of prejudice, but that racism is embedded in American society and its legal systems in order to uphold the supremacy of white persons”.

  Guardian

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.