First of all, the background picture of Pivtorak‘s Twitter page is the Tower of Babel. But more importantly, when talking about the story of the what sounds like a frivolous lawsuit against the Brentwood school, I don’t think we all have to keep using the right wing narrative of so called “woke” curricula. If teaching kids the real history of the US is somehow bad I am not sure what the reason for history classes are. As a German I had to endure three years of history classes about the Holocaust, I did not consider that “woke” or otherwise un-German. I considered it to be a necessity. As we have conversations about what is going on in this country I think it would be good to avoid using politicized words that in itself have an agenda … words like woke or mainstream media. They are all words designed with an idea of push a narrative. Changing the conversation to what is actually happening … we want to teach an inclusive history is what is happening and I honestly can’t see anything wrong with that.
First of all, the background picture of Pivtorak‘s Twitter page is the Tower of Babel. But more importantly, when talking about the story of the what sounds like a frivolous lawsuit against the Brentwood school, I don’t think we all have to keep using the right wing narrative of so called “woke” curricula. If teaching kids the real history of the US is somehow bad I am not sure what the reason for history classes are. As a German I had to endure three years of history classes about the Holocaust, I did not consider that “woke” or otherwise un-German. I considered it to be a necessity. As we have conversations about what is going on in this country I think it would be good to avoid using politicized words that in itself have an agenda … words like woke or mainstream media. They are all words designed with an idea of push a narrative. Changing the conversation to what is actually happening … we want to teach an inclusive history is what is happening and I honestly can’t see anything wrong with that.
Points taken Carsten, and smart ones. Thank you