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Related: About this forumSouthlake school leader tells teachers to balance Holocaust books with 'opposing' views
A top administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake advised teachers last week that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also offer students access to a book from an opposing perspective, according to an audio recording obtained by NBC News.
Gina Peddy, the Carroll school districts executive director of curriculum and instruction, made the comment Friday afternoon during a training session on which books teachers can have in classroom libraries. The training came four days after the Carroll school board, responding to a parents complaint, voted to reprimand a fourth grade teacher who had kept an anti-racism book in her classroom.
A Carroll staff member secretly recorded the Friday training and shared the audio with NBC News.
Just try to remember the concepts of [House Bill] 3979, Peddy said in the recording, referring to a new Texas law that requires teachers to present multiple perspectives when discussing widely debated and currently controversial issues. And make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, Peddy continued, that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives.
How do you oppose the Holocaust? one teacher said in response.
Believe me, Peddy said. Thats come up.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/southlake-texas-holocaust-books-schools-rcna2965
multigraincracker
(32,641 posts)LakeArenal
(28,806 posts)Paladin
(28,243 posts)I don't even want to think of what tomorrow will bring...
heckles65
(547 posts)was being ironic.
Pachamama
(16,884 posts)Yes - thats right - Bryan Hughes - the cackling sleazy looking man grinning in pictures next To Gov. Abbott on his right when he signed the anti- voting bill in Texas into law and the anti-abortion law.
Yes - the very same bills, all three authored and pushed by this same man.
A very dangerous man.
https://senate.texas.gov/member.php?d=1
https://thetexan.news/governor-abbott-signs-texas-heartbeat-act-banning-abortions-after-detectable-pulse/
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/big-lie-brings-bigger-consequences-note/story?id=79876528