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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWis. school board members dismissed book about Japanese American incarceration as being 'unbalanced,
Parents are pushing back after a committee whose members sit on a Wisconsin school board did not move forward with approving a book about Japanese American incarceration during World War II for a sophomore English literature class.
Muskego-Norway School Board members said including the book would require balance with perspective from the U.S. government, according to two parents in the district. They also said that minutes of a heated meeting with board members about the topic were not posted and that a video of another board meeting was reportedly edited.
As of Thursday, almost 200 parents, alumni, community members and staffers of the Waukesha County district had signed a petition demanding the committee reconsider Julie Otsukas book When the Emperor Was Divine which was not moved forward during the early stages of the approval process June 13.
Board members also reportedly said a book cannot be chosen for the sake of adding diversity to the curriculum, said the parents, who spoke with board members and attended the school board meeting this month.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wisc-school-board-members-dismissed-182654034.html
Unbalanced? Sounds like more Republican projection.
sakabatou
(42,146 posts)ratchiweenie
(7,754 posts)unbalanced.
MichMan
(11,901 posts)Curious if it condems FDR for implementation of this despicable treatment of Japanese Americans.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,135 posts)We need more history classes, not fewer - especially American history at this point, particularly Civics!
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. *sigh*