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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our DC came home with study material for the SOLs, including a copy of [url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2806538-robert-e-lee]Robert E Lee: Confederate Hero[/url]:

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Robert E. Lee-the pride of Virginia! His military foresight, decisiveness, and ability to inspire greatness in his troops was phenomenal. Not only was he a brilliant Confederate general, he was also a perfect gentleman and loyal Virginian.
These popular readers include easy-to-read information, fun facts and trivia, humor, activities and a whole lot more. They are great for ages 7-12 (grades 2-6), because although simple, these readers have substance and really engage kids with their stories. They are great for social studies, meeting state and national curriculum standards, individual and group reading programs, centers, library programs, and have many other terrific educational uses.
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Among others, it talks about celebrating "Lee-Jackson-King" day. We're immigrants from a different country and had been taught in school that the South lost the US Civil War. 
We're not woke, but did we miss something?  Why do VA SOLs expect children to read books highlighting Robert E Lee in 2021?[/quote]
Well Robert E Lee still has a lot of descendants in Virginia and beyond that, he is one the heroes in the system of white supremacy.  
I don’t like the test either so my kids have opted out.[/quote]

Not a hero to all: 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/07/robert-e-lee-is-my-ancestor-take-down-his-statue-let-his-cause-be-lost/

[i]In the small town where I live and grew up, the Lost Cause of the Confederacy didn’t need a special name — it was the education we all received. We were taught that during the Civil War, the Confederate States of America had just motive. Perhaps you’ve heard the mantra: “The Civil War was fought for states’ rights.” It was enshrined in monuments across the country after the war ended.

[b]The catch is that there’s more to that sentence, something we southerners are never taught: The Civil War was fought for states’ rights [u]to enslave African people in the United States of America.[/u][/b]

As a descendant of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s family, I have borne the weight and responsibility of that lineage. Even though my parents never pushed it or subscribed to all that it could entail, my own upbringing oozed with Southern pride. I had a black nanny — even in the 1990s — and a Confederate flag that hung in my bedroom until middle school. I believed that in commanding the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee was a Christian man with the best of intentions.

Others of us have worked for generations to escape the scorn my family — and the Lost Cause mythology — has brought upon the nation. And for many of us, removing the statue of Lee was a culmination of years of work. For me, this symbolic gesture stands at the start of a new way of life in the South, a new cause that could replace the Lost Cause mentality if we get this right.

The new cause of this country is about justice, equality, peace and concord. We can and must be different. Now is the time to make this new cause the hope of this upcoming generation of activists. [b]We can give the gift of Southern hospitality and community instead of passing on a pseudo-historical and oppressive understanding of the world.[/b]
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Robert E Lee had a bunch of Black kids too.  There are lots of Black descendants of Robert E Lee running around Virginia too [/quote]
One of those black descendants has posted on dcum. I disagreed with much of that person’s thoughts around race  (I’m also black) but it was an interesting perspective.[/quote]

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