Teaching The Past To Improve The Future
Last fall in Southlake, Texas, a Carroll Independent School District (ISD) school administrator provided baffling guidance to a group of teachers following the passage of a state law banning the teaching of critical race theory (CRT). Heard in a secret recording, she tells the teachers to present multiple viewpoints on contentious subjects and specifically names the Holocaust.
“Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust that you have one that has an opposing…that has other perspectives,” the administrator says.
There are audible gasps. One teacher asks, “How do you oppose the Holocaust?”
An author of the Texas bill subsequently argued that school administrators misrepresented what is in the new law.