Columns Do you claim my child is racist? In the United States, schooling became a fuel for politics

Should parents have a say in what is taught in schools?

In the United States, it is a hot political issue. News of school board meetings, where outraged conservative parents claim that left-wing radicals are brainwashing their children, have surfaced in the news.

The parental uprising is a reaction to the huge anti-racist popular movement. It once again aroused Americans to consider how the gloomy aspects of U.S. history should be taught to children.

Liberal America began to demand anti-racism in schools. Now conservative America answers.

Parents fear that schools will teach their children to be racists. Republican politicians and the conservative media are fueling these fears. The anger and fear of parents are strong political forces.

Republicans this year have enacted laws in several states that restrict what and how skin color, minorities, discrimination, and controversial current affairs are taught in schools.

Only one state, California, has enacted a reverse law that requires high schools to teach the history of certain minorities and the role of prejudice in it.

Basically, the controversy is about how children should be told about racism in American society and its traces. There is also a fight over the role of sexual and gender minorities in schools.

Overruns happens. Liberal private schools in particular carry ridiculous stories in which children have been flattened to represent their skin color in the name of resisting racism. They are fueling the fears of conservatives.

At the same time, liberals are horrified at how someone has muttered that the Holocaust should be told “both sides” in schools, or how somewhere they want to ban Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s novel. My people, my beloved use in school education because of ‘immorality’.

I suspect that the examples that come to light are not very representative. Everyday life in thousands of American schools is much more boring.

However, a lot of the pain points in society are told by what parents want to address in their curricula. No one needs changes in the teaching of chemistry, but history and social studies make emotions falter.

The author is HS’s Washington correspondent.