Biff_Poindexter
Diamond Member
A $5 Million Fine for Classroom Discussions on Race? In Tennessee, This Is the New Reality
A Tennessee mother has already filed a complaint that a lesson on Ruby Bridges and Martin Luther King Jr. made white students uncomfortable.
www.edweek.org
"Tennessee aims to levy fines starting at $1 million and rising to $5 million on school districts each time one of their teachers is found to have “knowingly violated” state restrictions on classroom discussions about systemic racism, white privilege, and sexism, according to guidance proposed by the state’s department of education late last week. Teachers could also be disciplined or lose their licenses for teaching that the United States is inherently racist or sexist or making a student feel “guilt or anguish” because of past actions committed by their race or sex.
Tennessee is one of 11 states this year that have drastically curtailed the ways that districts can fight systemic and individual acts of racism, homophobia, and sexism in the classroom and how teachers can talk to students about the ways America’s government has historically discriminated against minorities."
About time.....if people can force police departments to pay out millions of dollars for supposedly "beating" or "shooting" someone as some sort of deterrent -- then schools and teachers need to be forced to pay out millions for teaching students garbage about America's past that 1). never happened and 2). if it did happen, it was in the past and doesn't matter....What these teachers are doing and have been doing to our children has caused far more damage and death than anything in the history of country.