Amid growing critical race theory legislation, education experts say textbook content could be next

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Amid growing critical race theory legislation, education experts say textbook content could be next
Education experts say the restrictions on teaching critical race theory may spill over to textbooks as book review commissions worry about violating bans.
nbcnews.com
5:06 AM · Jul 10, 2021

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amid-growing-critical-race-theory-legislation-education-experts-say-textbook-n1272682

Kathyrn Garra was horrified to see dozens of angry parents show up to a school board meeting in Naples, Florida, last month to try to stop the Collier County School Board from approving new textbooks.

The parents argued that the books should be ousted because the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, had shared blog posts about racial justice and expressed a commitment to Black Lives Matter on its website, actions they said amounted to endorsing the teaching of critical race theory in schools.

“Critical race theory is not being taught in our schools, it’s just not," said Garra, 48, the mother of an incoming high school junior. "But here you have people complaining about something they know nothing about and now going after textbooks.”

Critical race theory, or the academic study of racism's impact, has become a flashpoint in U.S. schools and a point of attack for conservative activists. At least nine states have enacted bans on teaching topics related to racial equity and systematic injustice through legislation or other measures that bar critical race theory.

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[erronis]

1. First they came for the teachers, and then the textbooks, and then the libraries. And finally for

our own bookshelves.

[FalloutShelter]

2. They never take an inch.

It’s always a mile.

[rurallib]

5. and they usually have no idea why they are doing it

someone just told them to do so they did

[dalton99a]

3. It's their plan.

[llashram]

4. nothing new here

in my day wasn't a GD thing about slaves except they were "ignorant and happy" in their forced bondage and rape. The RW has come full circle from their lynching, lying BS days of my day 63 years ago. Not surprising at all. 64-65 started immediate RW reactionary force pushback. Trump is their current hope. I just hope we are smart enough, strong enough, and willing enough to turn back the next smarter, slicker RW fascist threat to this democracy.

[Ligyron]

6. They have no idea what critical race theory actually is.

I don’t think they could identify it if it bit them in the ass.

And how do you actually “teach” it anyway?