Your Turn: July 25
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Protesters outside the Texas Capitol denounce a number of bills planned for this special session, including an effort to ban the teaching of critical race theory.Tamir Kalifa /Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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Responding to a recent editorial cartoon, U.S. Rep Chip Roy says he will always oppose “the radical left” but has also found ways to craft bipartisan legislation.Elijah Nouvelage /BloombergShow MoreShow Less
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A reader has a book suggestion for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, left, and Gov. Greg Abbott.Ricardo B. Brazziell /Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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As the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, a reader says history is repeating itself.Carolyn Cole /Los Angeles TimesShow MoreShow Less
Your turn: July 24
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Teaching truth
Re: “Let white kids learn truth of slavery,” Another View, July 17:
Many public school teachers, active and retired, have always taught U.S. history as described by Frances McGovernor in her recent op-ed.
As a fifth grade teacher, I used a curriculum provided by Texas Law-Related Education called “We The People.” It doesn’t use the term “critical race theory,” but it certainly employs it. Another great resource is a series of 11 books, “The History of US,” by Joy Hakim. It is filled with primary source documents. Again, there is no mention of CRT, but the message is there.
Commentary: Kids can experience racism. Let s teach them about it
Frances McGovernor, For the Express-News
July 16, 2021
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Demonstrators gather outside of the state Capitol on the first day of the 87th Texas Legislature s special session to denounce voter restriction and bills banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory in public schools.Tamir Kalifa /Getty Images
“Cancel culture” was the rallying cry of the right for the past few months. Now, they’ve moved on to critical race theory, which 99 percent of Americans couldn’t define if their lives depended on it.
I retired last year after more than 20 years of teaching U.S. history in Texas schools. No one is teaching critical race theory, or CRT. It’s just the latest thing GOP politicians are using to keep their constituents perpetually angry. Texas curriculum only recently acknowledged that slavery was the main cause of the Civil War. Does anyone really think they went from slavery denial to critic