TX educator group proposes referring to slavery as "involuntary relocation" in 2nd grade curriculum

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/30/texas-slavery-involuntary-relocation/


A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as “involuntary relocation” during second grade social studies instruction.

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 “feel discomfort” out of Texas classrooms.

The SBOE found out about the suggested change in terms late during its June 15 meeting that lasted more than 12 hours. Board member Aicha Davis, a Democrat who represents Dallas and Fort Worth, brought up concerns to the board saying that it wasn’t a “fair representation” of the slave trade. The board, upon reading the language in the suggested curriculum, sent the working draft back for revision. "For K-2, carefully examine the language used to describe events, specifically the term "involuntary relocation."

“I can’t say what their intention was, but that’s not going to be acceptable,” Davis told The Texas Tribune on Thursday.

Part of the proposed draft standards that were obtained by The Texas Tribune say that students should “compare journeys to America, including voluntary Irish immigration and involuntary relocation of African people during colonial times.”

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I can't even.....

[LunaSea]

1. By all means, I want to hear from educators

from a state that ranks 43rd in education attainment.

https://www.kxan.com/news/education/texas-is-one-of-the-most-uneducated-states-in-the-u-s-study-says/

[Nictuku]

2. Is that because ...

Is that because 2nd Graders understand what the word Slavery means, but might not understand the meaning of Involuntary Relocation? I mean, they only are just getting to 4-sylable words in the 2nd grade, after all.

So sickening to me, this covering up and white-washing such important history.

[sop]

3. Guilt-free history.

[Skittles]

4. no doubt they'd like that for Jewish folk, too

[Demovictory9]

5. Omg

[GenThePerservering]

6. Aren't these snowflakes

the ones who complain about "PC" language?

[canuckledragger]

8. Weren't they the ones that invented that term 'politically corect' anyway?

Whereas the rest of us that weren't racist, bigoted troglodytes seen it as just common courtesy to not unintentionally make someone else uncomfortable from shitty language?

These goons will ALWAYS play the victim card when they can't say their racist crap without negative consequences.

[gratuitous]

7. "I can't say what their intention was . . ." Oh, I can

What's next, Holocaust victims as passengers on a train excursion gone badly wrong?

[Xoan]

9. Grooming future ...

Idiocrats?

[Grown2Hate]

10. I propose referring to this TX educator group as,

"Fucking monstrous pieces of human fucking waste", at least until I can accurately refer to them as, "actual fertilizer". I'm fucking OVER IT.