'Teacher Loyalty' bill would restrict how U.S. history, especially racism, can be discussed in schoo

[Nevilledog]

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Tweet text: Ben Railton
@AmericanStudier
I know most of y'all have seen this already, but in case not. "Teacher Loyalty"?! Fuck these 21st century Sedition Acts & McCarthyisms, & a curse upon everyone behind them.

‘Teacher Loyalty’ bill would restrict how U.S. history, especially racism, can be discussed in...
Just one year after New Hampshire legislators first introduced a bill that banned the teaching or discussion of “divisive concepts” like systemic racism, another bill will be debated this legislative...
concordmonitor.com
9:17 AM · Dec 4, 2021

https://www.concordmonitor.com/House-Republicans-file-teacher-loyalty-bill-43842418

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Just one year after New Hampshire legislators first introduced a bill that banned the teaching or discussion of “divisive concepts” like systemic racism, another bill will be debated this legislative session that would take those restrictions further.

The proposed bill, HB 1255, is titled “An Act Relative to Teachers’ Loyalty,’ and seeks to ban public school teachers from promoting any theory that depicts U.S. history or its founding in a negative light, including the idea that the country was founded on racism. The bill updates a piece of Cold War-era law that bans educators from advocating for communism in schools, and adds additional bans on advocating for socialism and Marxism.

“No teacher shall advocate any doctrine or theory promoting a negative account or representation of the founding and history of the United States of America in New Hampshire public schools which does not include the worldwide context of now outdated and discouraged practices,” the text of the proposed bill reads. “Such prohibition includes but is not limited to teaching that the United States was founded on racism.”

The bill's primary sponsor, Rep. Alicia Lekas (R-Hudson), said in a phone interview Friday that she wants to bring the bill to the 2022 legislative session because she disagrees with the way history is being taught in public schools today.

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[marmar]

1. "divisive concepts", i.e. the truth.

[tulipsandroses]

2. Where are the gun safety bills to protect kids

from being massacred? . No child has died from a book or history lesson. But we are at an all time high of students being murdered at school while republicans do nothing about gun control.

[CrispyQ]

4. That's cuz their the party of pro-life.

I'm so fucking sick of republicans.

[gratuitous]

3. Latter day McCarthyism

But I suppose teaching about McCarthyism wouldn't be allowed in Rep. Lekas' history curriculum either.

[NotASurfer]

5. Yeah. And pi should equal exactly 3

https://abcnews.go.com/US/happy-pi-day-indiana-define-pi-32-bill/story?id=61644614


I'm with Prof. Waldo on this

Asked if he wanted to meet Goodwin, the professor later recalled that he "declined the courtesy with thanks, remarking that he was acquainted with as many crazy people as he cared to know."

[70sEraVet]

6. Thanks much for that bizarre little piece of history!

And its an important lesson: that we need to ensure that our elected representatives are among the most intelligent, educated members of our society.
And obviously, we haven't learned that lesson yet!

[70sEraVet]

7. No, I hadn't heard of the 'Teacher Loyalty' bill.

But it sure sounds like a phrase from a fascist government's handbook.

[modrepub]

8. Ban Gravity While You're At It

Anyone can access this information via a public library or when they go to college to "relearn" what our public education systems have mucked up. Most people can detect BS when they hear it.

Politicians are some of the least perceptive people out there. This will be about as successful as trying to stop folks from taking action on climate change.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Alicia Lekas, no surprise