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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD came home yesterday with a reading packet, which included an essay from the 1619 Project.

Are many schools still teaching this stuff?  [/quote]

What did you think of the essay? Who wrote it? What else was in the packet? What is the specific topic being studied?

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Typical MAGA reactionary response without bothering to read the assignment.[/quote]

I don't have a disagreement with teaching any history responsibly. The problem that I have is that the teachers always seem to have an "us vs them" approach to teaching it when people such as Hispanics and Asians were not involved. We've had black and white teachers teach pre-colonial history, plantation history, and civil war history and the take was always that kids like mine were somehow made to feel guilty as part of the enslavers by both slightly angry AA or white apologists. Somehow there always seems to be extra room in the guilt trip party for contemporaneously non-existing groups to be implicitly blamed. And this has happened several times in different years.[/quote]

Cognitive dissonance is hard. This notion that you should spare them this discomfort is nonsense.

Feeling guilty is just internalizing things when the subject really isn’t about them. They’ll push through, I promise you.

Sometimes education is uncomfortable. That’s OK. That’s how we learn. Resist the urge to shield your children from uncomfortable topics.

At the root of white fragility on these topics is often the people who take most offense fancy themselves good people. And they oftentimes are, in fact, good people. Trust those good impulses to be there when the cognitive dissonance is resolved and you learn to see the world as others see it, instead of rigidly clinging to your own paradigm as the one and only truth. [/quote]

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