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To: Lane3 who wrote (204546)	7/8/2021 1:09:38 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362845

>> If you find schools doing so, then you have a case. Otherwise, not. The book is not in the style of a textbook. But its premise flows freely in high schools. A few years ago, the "Zinn Education Project" provided free copies of the text to any teacher in Arkansas who requested it. Almost instantly, 700 middle and high school teachers and librarians requested the book. So, yes, it is used in Jr and Sr high schools around the state. Not always as a textbook, but it is used extensively in classroom teaching. From 2013 in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Resolution calling upon the Philadelphia School District to make Howard Zinn's best-selling book "A People's History of the United States" a required part of the high school U.S. history curriculum as Philadelphia City Council recognizes the need to expose students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is typically found in traditional textbooks that often ignore the influence that people of color, women, and the working-class had in shaping our nation's history. So, you have localities as disparate as Philly and Little Rock making significant use of the book in the classroom. All of this goes to the comments yesterday of NEA and AFT presidents stating they will provide legal funds to support teachers who violate the law by teaching CRT illegally. In that context, both used the construct of "while teaching factual history" or similar verbiage. We know this horseshit is anything BUT factual history. CRT, as well as Zinn. Yet, here we are.