Illinois becomes first state to require teaching Asian American history in schools

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Illinois becomes first state to require teaching Asian American history in schools

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-...ching-asian-american-history-schools-n1273774

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill Friday that requires elementary and high schools to teach a unit of Asian American history beginning in the 2022-23 school year. The historic legislation, which passed after an aggressive campaign led in part by the nonprofit group Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago, is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1.

Sociology professor Natasha Warikoo, a scholar of racial and ethnic inequality in education at Tufts University, said that the legislation is no doubt a win but that it is likely to be up to the educators and the community to determine how heavily schools will emphasize the teachings.

"A lot of the legislation around these kinds of curricular decisions are often symbolic. They are signals by legislators of priorities and where they stand and about what's important to the state," Warikoo said. "What really happens on the ground is going to vary tremendously," depending on "local politics, depending on the staff and the feelings of capacity on who the student body is."

The legislation mandates that schools teach "the contributions of Asian American communities to the economic, cultural, social, and political development of the United States" in addition to Asian American civil rights advancements, among other aspects of history. While it says the state superintendent of education may provide materials that can be used as guidelines for the curriculum, the law allows each school board to determine the minimum amount of time required to qualify as a unit of instruction.

Warikoo said that schools often aim to ensure that material is taught to a specific standard by including questions about the topics in standardized testing but that the tactic doesn't necessarily account for the depth of instruction.
 
Otherwise known as "history." Leave it to the apartheidista Democrats to ghettoize history.
 
Why is it the Left only wants us to hear about communists? And then only hagiographic portrayals?
 
They've even done it to mathematics. I swear to God. Wanna know what 2+2 is in Jalalabad? They can tell you it ain't the racist 4 you've been taught.

Yup....2+2= racist hit Minnesota schools when I got here.

And my kids were put in private school about as fast as the paperwork could get done.
 
Yup....2+2= racist hit Minnesota schools when I got here.

And my kids were put in private school about as fast as the paperwork could get done.

Even then you have to keep on the lookout for woke indoctrination, but at least you can pull your kids if they decide to destroy actual education at your private skule.
 
Even then you have to keep on the lookout for woke indoctrination, but at least you can pull your kids if they decide to destroy actual education at your private skule.

For sure, but you know what I noticed from the private tech/prep school??

They were happy to show me everything about their curriculum, teaching strategies and other features and why I should go give them tens of thousands of dollars a year.

The public schools were downright hostile upon asking.

That told me all I needed to know. :cool:
 
No doubt cover for teaching Maoism, the glories of Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Kim's spiritualism, and how western civilization couldn't have happened without the DNA of Genghis Khan being so liberally splashed all over eastern Europe.;):D

Come back when you've recovered from the brain damage.
 
For sure, but you know what I noticed from the private tech/prep school??

They were happy to show me everything about their curriculum, teaching strategies and other features and why I should go give them tens of thousands of dollars a year.

The public schools were downright hostile upon asking.

That told me all I needed to know. :cool:

Hence my thread: The First rule of CRT is you don't talk about CRT.
 
For sure, but you know what I noticed from the private tech/prep school??

They were happy to show me everything about their curriculum, teaching strategies and other features and why I should go give them tens of thousands of dollars a year.

The public schools were downright hostile upon asking.

That told me all I needed to know. :cool:

That's because a private school has to sell itself.
 
No doubt cover for teaching Maoism, the glories of Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Kim's spiritualism, and how western civilization couldn't have happened without the DNA of Genghis Khan being so liberally splashed all over eastern Europe.;):D

uhhh...look, I know to people like you, they all look the same, but we're talking about Asian-Americans here, my comrade! :D
 
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