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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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I read through the first 20 pages or so. It's a weird document. It looks like it was drafted not so much to push the GOP narrative openly, but to PERMIT a school to run a pretty racist curriculum and get away with it. Most of what we might expect in a reasonable set of K-12 standards is there, but there are some odd choices to have made, and some really creepy prioritization and re-contextualization. Here are a few:
I'm quite sure I'm missing some. This is a creepy-ass document, but it includes enough decent history to make it a Trojan Horse more than a battering ram. It's not (on its own, at least) going to preclude teachers from teaching something better, but it IS going to allow Coach Bumblefuck in the exurbs to MAGA his way through the African American studies unit, or allow Principal Stonewall Jackson Beauregard in Pensacola to fire the new history teacher who doesn't point out that a lot of slaves were treated just fine and learned new skills and became free when God willed it.
There's a Slavery exhibit at the Atlanta History Museum that they built for the 96 Atlanta Olympics. It's filled with this crap, the "a lot of the slaves ended up in poverty, were they really worse off?" bullshit. It makes me sick.