Let’s legislate the ability to talk about important issues that you disagree with. Also, tag on ‘contending viewpoints’ to make it sound like a reasonable solution.
Oklahoma State Sen. George Burns (R-Pollard) has filed SB 20, a measure that would prevent public school history teachers from being required to talk about, “currently controversial issues of public policy or social affairs” in class.
Teachers could still include such issues in their lessons, but they would have to discuss various and contending viewpoints on the topics.
The measure would also prevent students from getting credit for lobbying for legislation, and prevent schools from using private dollars for both social studies courses and teacher training.
Tom Ferguson