Seymour Flops
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It's from a Newsweek story.
www.newsweek.com
It is the exact kind of misleading headline that so many posters on here copy and paste to use as a subject line for an OP. They don't bother to read into the story, because there are almost always sentences several paragraphs down that invalidate the headline. They sad thing is that those posters are not usually being deliberately deceptive. They have fallen for the headlines themselves, and are passing on what they actually believe based on skimming headlines that google recommends for them.
Here is the passage that invalidates the Newsweek headline:
Nothing in the laws as enacted specifically prohibit teachers from telling their students the "objective facts" about the origins of Juneteenth, said Adrienne Dixson, a professor of critical race theory and education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"There is a way to talk about Juneteenth, even within the limitations that are set by states in terms of the anti-CRT laws," she told Newsweek.
You may say, "but the headline is that teachers are afraid to talk about Juneteenth, not that the law actually forbids it!" If you say that, I am happy to see you thinking critically about my post. Please apply the same skill to this article. If you do, you will understand that the headline then should have read, "Uninformed or foolish teachers fear Juneteenth lesson due to laws which do not ban them."
Teachers Fear Juneteenth School Lessons Amid Critical Race Theory Clampdown
"These laws are intended to impede open and honest discussion about some of the hardest parts of our country's past," Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, told Newsweek.
www.newsweek.com
It is the exact kind of misleading headline that so many posters on here copy and paste to use as a subject line for an OP. They don't bother to read into the story, because there are almost always sentences several paragraphs down that invalidate the headline. They sad thing is that those posters are not usually being deliberately deceptive. They have fallen for the headlines themselves, and are passing on what they actually believe based on skimming headlines that google recommends for them.
Here is the passage that invalidates the Newsweek headline:
Nothing in the laws as enacted specifically prohibit teachers from telling their students the "objective facts" about the origins of Juneteenth, said Adrienne Dixson, a professor of critical race theory and education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"There is a way to talk about Juneteenth, even within the limitations that are set by states in terms of the anti-CRT laws," she told Newsweek.
You may say, "but the headline is that teachers are afraid to talk about Juneteenth, not that the law actually forbids it!" If you say that, I am happy to see you thinking critically about my post. Please apply the same skill to this article. If you do, you will understand that the headline then should have read, "Uninformed or foolish teachers fear Juneteenth lesson due to laws which do not ban them."
