Opinion: Education is 'a litany of divisive concepts,' writes George Pyle. And 'learning to handle divisive concepts as students is proper training for handling them as self-governing adults.'
Education, like legislation, is little but a litany of divisive concepts, examined, understood, held up to the light, pushed to explain themselves. It’s not only true in history books, with all those chapters with “War” in the title, but in science, as our understanding of the universe changes through observation, experiment and argument.
Actually, if you get down into the weeds of the 15-page bill and read Johnson’s specific definition of what constitutes “divisive concepts,” it isn’t quite as horrible as it might appear. If someone had put most of that language into state law 70 years ago, it is likely that nobody would notice, and that nobody would ever have accused any school or teacher of violating it. Because there is no evidence that anyone is teaching any such thing.
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