A group of Texas educators proposed to the State Board of Education that slavery should be replaced with “involuntary relocation” in the second grade social studies curriculum. The board sent the working draft back for revision.
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The group of nine educators, including a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is one of many such groups advising the state education board to make curriculum change requests. This summer, the board will consider updates to social studies instruction a year after lawmakers passed a law to keep topics that make students “feel discomfort” out of Texas classrooms.
“I can’t say what their intention was, but that’s not going to be acceptable,” Davis told The Texas Tribune on Thursday.
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