| | | Texas Senate passes bill that removes MLK, suffrage and Native American history from required curriculumIt also cuts the requirement to teach 'the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong'
[ If you don't think teaching about MLK is CRT, take the TX's Senate's word for it Gov. Abbott agrees, he signed the bill. Oh, and be neutral about the KKK too. ]
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National Post Staff
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Jul 21, 2021 • July 21, 2021
 Governor Greg Abbott speaks during a press conference where he signed Senate Bills 2 and 3 at the Capitol on June 8, 2021 in Austin, Texas. PHOTO BY MONTINIQUE MONROE/GETTY IMAGESArticle contentThe Texas state senate passed a bill that would no longer require public schools to cover writings on the civil rights movement, women’s suffrage and Native American history in its social studies classes.
Senate Bill 3 would be appended to a law signed by Governor Greg Abbott in May, which is set to come in effect later this year. Although not stated explicitly in either the bill or the law, Republican lawmakers say both bills would ban the teaching of critical race theory, which asserts that racism is woven into the U.S. legal system and ingrained in its primary institutions.
The proposal diverts from the new law, removing requirements to teach works pertaining to racial relations and white supremacy in U.S. history. It would drop teachings of the life and works of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and writings by Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr., whose “I Have a Dream” speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” would be abandoned.
It also cuts the requirement to teach “the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong.”
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Texas Senate bill removes classroom requirement to teach that the KKK is ‘morally wrong’
Helen Elfer
July 20, 2021
The Texas Senate has voted to axe requirements that public schools teach certain materials about the KKK, the civil rights movement and women’s suffrage, among others.
A current requirement, that students learn: “the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong” would be dropped if the bill is passed.
The bill is widely considered to be part of a Republican campaign against Critical Race Theory, which looks at the impact of race and racism in US institutions. While the theory was not mentioned specifically in the legislation, it is currently a flashpoint in US cultural and political debates.
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