re: #9 DodgerFan1988

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“Critical Race Theory”

The minutes of the meeting included these lines:

Mike Cochran- I will start. I went to school here thirteen years. I learned math, English, Reading and History. I never had a book with a naked picture in it, never had one with foul language.
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So, this idea that we have to have this kind of material in the class in order
to teach history, I don’t buy it.
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My problem is, all the way through this literature we expose these kids to nakedness, we expose them to vulgarity. You go all the way back to first grade, second grade and they are reading books that have a picture of a naked man riding a bull. It’s not vulgar, it’s something you would see in an art gallery, but it’s unnecessary. So, teachers have gone back and put tape over the guys butts so the kids aren’t exposed to it. So, my
problem is, it looks like the entire curriculum is developed to normalize sexuality, normalize nudity and normalize vulgar language.

That appears to be the core of their objection for a book to be assigned to 8th graders. It’s not the discussion of the Holocaust or that the book is effective in teaching children about the horrors of this monstrous crime but that it includes profanity, vulgarity, nudity.