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A U.S. flag hangs in a classroom as students work on laptops in Newlon Elementary School in Denver, Colorado. (David Zalubowski/AP)
Like millions of other teachers across the country, Robert DeLossa has spent the last four years guiding students through this historic time in our nation s history.
The Lowell High School history teacher continues to do so this Inauguration Day.
DeLossa, who is also social studies department chair at the high school, facilitated student-led discussions about the outcome of the 2016 election. The task at hand remains the same in 2021, even with a fully-remote classroom.
He’s asked his students to listen critically and empathetically to President Biden s inaugural address and identify what his core priorities appear to be. The exercise’s purpose is to allow students to come to their own conclusions about what the new administration represents, he says.
The Violent History of White Supremacy Is Rarely Taught in Schools. It Should Be 7 min read
Teran Tease, 5, watches at Oaklawn Cemetery during a test excavation in the search for possible mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on July 21, 2020.Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP Share article Copy URL
Searing images from this month’s mostly white insurrection in Washington, D.C. including a hangman’s noose on the Capitol grounds and the Confederate flag carried inside the U.S. Capitol harken back to another era when both were tools and symbols of white supremacy across the country.
But relatively few students have learned about previous sordid moments that foreshadowed this year’s efforts to instill terror and violently overturn an election such as the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, widely thought to be the only successful coup in U.S. history, and the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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Like millions of other teachers across the country, Robert DeLossa has spent the last four years guiding students through this historic time in our nation’s history.
The Lowell High School history teacher continues to do so this Inauguration Day.
DeLossa, who is also social studies department chair at the high school, facilitated student-led discussions about the outcome of the 2016 election. The task at hand remains the same in 2021, even with a fully-remote classroom.
He’s asked his students to listen critically and empathetically to President Biden’s inaugural address and identify what his core priorities appear to be. The exercise’s purpose is to allow students to come to their own conclusions about what the new administration represents, he says.
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