Lonecat wrote an eloquent and informative post above. It explains in very gentle terms why many parents in this nation are on a campaign to clean up SCHOOL libraries and SCHOOL curriculum.
Parents are correctly concerned over schools teaching age inappropriate materials that cover social issues best handled at home during a child’s formative years. And as even Martens agreed, some of the materials offered at the HS level should be shifted to college level courses.
No one in the GOP or any other group want to burn books or ban books. What they want is to retain their parental right to at least be informed and consulted about access and teaching topics that are hot-button issues. In some cases we are seeing CRT concepts being taught to children as young as 5-7 years old. When the black father of an mixed race 7 year old shows up and complains that the school told his daughter that her white mother is a racist, it is obvious that that school has a serious problem.
When prepubescent children are given access to, sometimes even steered towards books that encourage casual sex, explore non-hetero sex, gender identity issues and the like, that school has a serious problem.
Teaching basic history in K-8 is a given. Exploring modern social issues, especially with a bias has absolutely no place at those grade levels. Even in HS those topics must be handled very carefully, with special attention to keeping the coursework and teacher input totally neutral.
There are lines that simply must not be crossed. Teaching that slavery is bad and wrong and oppressive is OK. Teaching the history of racism in America, the history of slavery is another topic that MUST be explored. However, teaching concepts about collective post slavery guilt, that modern whites share the sins of those from previous generations…this is what enrages parents.
Lonecat wrote an eloquent and informative post above. It explains in very gentle terms why many parents in this nation are on a campaign to clean up SCHOOL libraries and SCHOOL curriculum.
Parents are correctly concerned over schools teaching age inappropriate materials that cover social issues best handled at home during a child’s formative years. And as even Martens agreed, some of the materials offered at the HS level should be shifted to college level courses.
No one in the GOP or any other group want to burn books or ban books. What they want is to retain their parental right to at least be informed and consulted about access and teaching topics that are hot-button issues. In some cases we are seeing CRT concepts being taught to children as young as 5-7 years old. When the black father of an mixed race 7 year old shows up and complains that the school told his daughter that her white mother is a racist, it is obvious that that school has a serious problem.
When prepubescent children are given access to, sometimes even steered towards books that encourage casual sex, explore non-hetero sex, gender identity issues and the like, that school has a serious problem.
Teaching basic history in K-8 is a given. Exploring modern social issues, especially with a bias has absolutely no place at those grade levels. Even in HS those topics must be handled very carefully, with special attention to keeping the coursework and teacher input totally neutral.
There are lines that simply must not be crossed. Teaching that slavery is bad and wrong and oppressive is OK. Teaching the history of racism in America, the history of slavery is another topic that MUST be explored. However, teaching concepts about collective post slavery guilt, that modern whites share the sins of those from previous generations…this is what enrages parents.