{"id":52130,"date":"2022-06-30T21:56:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52130"},"modified":"2022-06-30T21:56:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:56:46","slug":"no-way-to-soften-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52130","title":{"rendered":"No way to soften ‘slavery’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This cannot possibly be real, cannot be serious, cannot be accurate. Some Texas educators now want to introduce a new form of study … changing the term “slavery” to something called “involuntary relocation.”<\/p>\n

Good, ever-lovin’ grief! This can’t be happening. Oh, but it is happening.<\/p>\n

The Texas Tribune reports:<\/p>\n

A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as \u201cinvoluntary relocation\u201d during second grade social studies instruction.<\/em><\/p>\n

The group of nine educators, including a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is one of many such groups advising the state education board to make curriculum change requests. This summer, the board will consider updates to social studies instruction a year after lawmakers passed a law to keep topics that make students \u201cfeel discomfort\u201d out of Texas classrooms.<\/em><\/p>\n

How do I say this? The enslavement of human beings during the formation and early development of the United States is part of who we are as a nation, who we became and who we sought to correct.<\/p>\n

To suggest that our children no longer should be taught what slavery meant to millions of our ancestors is to deny the facts as they occurred.<\/p>\n

Texas education proposes referring to slavery as \u201cinvoluntary relocation\u201d | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like it because it\u2019s a personal belief. I don\u2019t like it because it\u2019s not rooted in truth,\u201d said Aicha Davis, an SBOE member who represents Dallas and Fort Worth. \u201cWe can have all the discussions we want, but we have to adopt the truth for our students.\u201d<\/p>\n

We all have been told at times that “the truth hurts.”<\/p>\n

Fine. Let it hurt. Slavery is the most egregious blot on our nation’s history. Our children should learn about it in its rawest form.<\/p>\n

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This cannot possibly be real, cannot be serious, cannot be accurate. Some Texas educators now want to introduce a new form of study … changing the term “slavery” to something called “involuntary relocation.” Good, ever-lovin’ grief! This can’t be happening. Oh, but it is happening. The Texas Tribune reports: A group of Texas educators have … Continue reading No way to soften ‘slavery’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251,18],"tags":[9801,5971,4286],"class_list":["post-52130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-state-news","tag-critical-race-theory","tag-sboe","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52131,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52130\/revisions\/52131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}