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TexasTowelie

(111,944 posts)
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 07:51 AM Jan 2022

Education bill would mandate classes on labor history

An education bill filed in the New Hampshire House of Representatives this month seeks to make lessons about labor history a mandatory part of New Hampshire middle and high school history curriculum.

The bill’s primary sponsor, Rep. Eric Gallager (D-Concord), told the House Education Committee on Tuesday that adding teaching about labor history in schools would give students knowledge that could be useful to them in practice when they enter the workforce.

“One thing I heard a lot in the school system growing up was that teachers are trying to prepare students for the workplace, for getting a job, for what they’re going to do when they grow up,” Gallager said. “It’s biased toward the employers’ point of view, and there’s not really as much education from the workers’ point of view of what sort of skills they might need to stand up to their boss, to fight for higher wages or better working conditions.”

The bill, HB1144, would update RSA 89:11, the state law that regulates history education, to include a line requiring instruction of labor history. Currently, the law requires lessons about civic engagement, the U.S. and New Hampshire constitutions, the government’s role in making laws and regulating economic activity, and how intolerance and discrimination can lead to genocide such as the Holocaust.

Read more: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Teaching-Labor-History-in-Schools-44637894

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Education bill would mandate classes on labor history (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2022 OP
Oh, this should be good....... MyOwnPeace Jan 2022 #1
The Republicans are so dumb TexasTowelie Jan 2022 #2
But, but........ MyOwnPeace Jan 2022 #4
My N.J. high school students got two weeks of labor history. 3Hotdogs Jan 2022 #3

MyOwnPeace

(16,917 posts)
1. Oh, this should be good.......
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 08:21 AM
Jan 2022

So that those that don't know how to argue about CRT, let's give them this:

You can teach 'labor history' - but you are not allowed to use the words "UNION" or "STRIKE"

You cannot mention "Homestead Strike" or "Pinkerton Agents"

Well, maybe the students WILL learn something - just from the fights to keep them 'not knowing!'

TexasTowelie

(111,944 posts)
2. The Republicans are so dumb
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 08:36 AM
Jan 2022

that they thought a class about labor history was a meeting to watch and discuss a video about how women gave birth in the past and in current times.

3Hotdogs

(12,330 posts)
3. My N.J. high school students got two weeks of labor history.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 09:09 AM
Jan 2022

Knights of Labor.... Wild Bill Haywood, Matwan and so forth. Oh, and the original Populist Party.

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