Some Texas schools may call slavery 'involuntary relocation'

[edbermac]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Public schools in Texas would describe slavery to second graders as “involuntary relocation” under new social studies standards proposed to the state's education board.

A group of nine educators submitted the idea to the State Board of Education as part of Texas' efforts to develop new social studies curriculum, according to the Texas Tribune. The once-a-decade process updates what children learn in the state's nearly 8,900 public schools.

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The board is considering curriculum changes one year after Texas passed a law to eliminate topics from schools that make students “feel discomfort.”

Board member Aicha Davis, a Democrat who represents Dallas and Fort Worth, raised concerns during a June 15 meeting that the term wasn't a fair representation of the slave trade. The board sent the draft back for revision, urging the educator group to “carefully examine the language used to describe events.”

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

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-schools-may-call-slavery-230329127.html

[purr-rat beauty]

1. And the rest of us will call their Board of Education...

....stupid fucks, if they do so

[madaboutharry]

2. Kidnapped and sold into bondage is not involuntary relocation.

This is sick and demeaning to the memory of the victims of slavery and their descendants. Maybe that is their point. More ugly from the state of Texas.

[dalton99a]

3. Yep, "workers" relocated:

[Ritabert]

4. A textbook that was withdrawn called them "workers"

As if they came over voluntarily presumably on the Love Boat. That book was yanked a couple of years ago but apparently that idea is coming back among stupid Texans.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Chicken Livers won't even call it "false imprisonment"

which is the usual term for holding shoplifters until police arrive.

[OLDMDDEM]

7. This is so much BS

If someone feels bad because of using the word slavery, then so be it. To teach otherwise, is not teaching the truth.

[Lovie777]

8. Involuntary forced to work without pay and working conditions?.....

[marmar]

9. So I guess lynching was "involuntary suffocation"?