Is It Okay For Schools To Teach About Race?

Teaching about Race

Is it appropriate for our public schools to teach children about racial issues?  It’s an interesting question, and, in my view, there is no simplistic answer.  I’m interested in how readers of this post would answer the question.  Here’s the bottom-line of my current thinking: Proposed Principles Public schools should not — indeed, they realistically…

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First Steps

Fairfax Schools monitor

I began my research into the curriculum of the Fairfax County public schools in September 2021.  A good place to start, I decided, would be to examine the History and Civics textbooks being used in the middle- and high-schools.  Do they fail to address the history of race and indigenous people adequately, as some on…

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