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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Let's assume this is true . . . it sounds like your proposed solution is a curriculum that ignores crucial information because teachers "always seem" use it to make white "kids like [yours] . . . feel guilty." Otherwise why would you wonder why schools are "still teaching this stuff?" Sometimes teaching history "responsibly" means that someone might feel uncomfortable, sad, frightened, or even "guilty," if by that you mean aware of atrocities in the past committed by people who look like them. So what?[/quote]

We're not white. That's the point. All non-AA are lumped together when they use an us vs them argument by both white and AA teachers. The teacher should make it a point to distinguish this fact unambiguously. Non-whites [b]don't need to share the blame or made to feel guilty.[/b][/quote]

Uh... neither do white kids.[/quote]

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