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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not BS...google it. Many links have already been provided in this thread. You are just choosing to ignore them.[/quote]

Nope.  Are you new here?  You make a claim, you provide the links.  But you can’t because you’re a liar.  [/quote]

There have been many links provided in this thread. You have chosen to ignore them.[/quote]

Zero links about John Lewis and Ruby Bridges being "banned."  But you know that.  Keep up the good fight (aka narrative)![/quote]
NP but here is the complaint from the Williamson County, TN “Moms for Liberty” wanting to dump books about Martin Luther King, Ruby Bridges and segregation, calling them CRT.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16W9grkwSFsIPRQOSpQfnAHNJzvDH5Bkk/view[/quote]

Some of this would be more appropriate for fifth or sixth grade than for second.  I am of an age to remember some of the events, and it is not wrong to teach about them.  But, I do think that some of this is a little strong for 7 year olds.  It does encourage "all white people are bad" with some of the books.  Seven year olds are not old enough to understand.  That does not mean they cannot be taught about MLK--but teaching about Bull Connor at second grade is a little too much.  It should be taught, but not at second grade.

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Are you joking? No, they want to dump books about MLK and Ruby Bridges. They don’t want kids taught about American history. They certainly don’t want kids to know that their parents and grandparents were and are shockingly racist people. [/quote]

DP and I didn't get that from the letter. I did get that they feel the books are just not appropriate for 2nd graders. While reading the letter, what struck me is that fact that 2nd graders today really don't have any context for these stories. They never see this happen, they don't hear their parents talk about it, they don't see it in the media, they watch kids shows with diverse casts of kids both animated and real life actors, these same shows stress be kind, be nice to everyone, we all have differences it's ok be nice, Obama was the president.

We get upset and object because we are older. [b]We have more context and though there aren't likely many of us posting her that actually lived through segregation but it wasn't far enough removed that we didn't see it's remnants in some way growing up. [/b]

Racism still exists today but today a lot of it is more subtle [imo that makes it worse ...]
Reading about history and telling kids that we as white people got it wrong is ok.
And if we don't do it with books and stories that are age appropriate than kids miss the point and there is very little understanding. 
The vast majority of people way over estimate the reading abilities and comprehension of 2nd graders.
Picture books are still appropriate for 2nd graders btw
There are 2nd graders who will not even be able to read the word "injustice".
The concept at 2nd grade history needs to be - in the past we did things wrong. Segregation was wrong. It was stopped. We will never do it again. 
And as the years go by it becomes am more sophisticated explanation.
History isn't going anywhere and if it takes a few years to fully impart the depth of the situation that was, it really is ok. 
It happened. It's not going to unhappen.

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Loving v. Virginia was decided in 1967. Virginia still has a number of so-called “segregation academies” founded as part of the Massive Resistance movement in response to Brown v. Bd. Of Education. [/quote]

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