Months after some Texas teachers were told to present “both sides” of the Holocaust, the State Board of Education has received a proposal to rename slavery as “involuntary relocation. “. The board is in the midst of reflecting on proposals for updating the social curriculum every decade. The latest update will align the curriculum with the new Texas decree that the subject should not make students “feel uncomfortable.” Nine educators from a working group advising the board suggested revising the second-degree curriculum to “compare travel to America, including voluntary Irish immigration and the involuntary relocation of Africans during the colonial era,” he said. reported the Texas Tribune. The proposal caught the attention of a Democrat on the board, who expressed concern. The board says it returned the proposal to the group and told them to “carefully examine the language used to describe the events, specifically the term ‘involuntary relocation'”.
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