Every once in a while something happens that makes you think all hope is not lost. These days, that qualifies as good news, so this counts as a good news post.
Hundreds of Colorado high school students walked out of school Tuesday to protest a conservative history curriculum their town’s recently elected far-right school board is proposing:
The school board proposal that triggered the walkouts in Jefferson County calls for instructional materials that present positive aspects of the nation and its heritage. It would establish a committee to regularly review texts and course plans, starting with Advanced Placement history, to make sure materials “promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free-market system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights” and don’t “encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law.”
The student walkouts followed a sick-out by teachers that closed two schools.
It truly is heartening that these kids are refusing to submit to propaganda in the schoolroom. This experience may be one they never forget, that may permanently influence their political thinking, which is all to the good.
Of course, there is a small cloud within this silver lining. It was their parents, among others, who put that school board in office. The acid test will come when those folks come up for re-election.
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