Dear John,
Republican-led State legislatures are working urgently to pass bills that will ban teachers from speaking honestly about race. Imagine telling teachers they’re not even allowed to mention events like the massive racial justice protests for Black lives last year! Banning teachers from mentioning systemic racism won’t make it go away—it will only prevent our children and future generations from purposely confronting it. Our kids deserve the truth. Politicians should stop meddling with our children’s classrooms.
Click here to sign this petition now to demand that right-wing state legislatures stop trying to ban schools from speaking honestly about systemic racism.
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Since the movement for racial justice erupted in mass protests last summer, we’ve been in the midst of a national moment of reckoning around our painful history of racial exclusion. This has been driven in part by brave young people asking tough questions and speaking out for justice.
But in Republican-led states across the country, legislatures have been responding by trying to ban teachers and students from even having the conversation.
New laws and bills under consideration in states like Idaho, Texas, and Oklahoma would ban teachers from teaching about current events like the mass protests for Black lives or even talking about systemic racism.1
Kids should be learning to think critically in school—and to understand the full history of our country, even the painful parts.
And our politicians should be focused on helping students and teachers who are still struggling with fallout from COVID--rather than punishing teachers for speaking the truth. We cannot back down from these McCarthy-esque attacks on our education system.
Click here to add your name to this petition standing against these attempts to censor our teachers and silence the truth about systemic racism, and then pass it along to your friends.
Thanks for all you do,
— MoveOn via LeftNet
P.S. This petition was created on MoveOn.org, where anyone can start their own online petitions. You can start your own petition to push for progressive change here.
Sources:
1. "Bills Banning Critical Race Theory Advance in States Despite Its Absence in Many Classrooms," US News & World Report, June 23rd, 2021 https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-06-23/bills-banning-critical-race-theory-advance-in-states-despite-its-absence-in-many-classrooms
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