Many bills are worded so vaguely that they arguably reach the teaching of certain noncontroversial historical facts. E.g. Rhode Island’s bill that bans “assigning blame” to a race arguably bans the statement “Until 1865, in the US, white people enslaved black people.” 11/34
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K-12 teachers have few 1A rights in the course of their teaching, so this vagueness doesn’t make the bill unconstitutional, but from FIRE’s decades of experience with speech codes, navigating vagueness like this will chill even benign speech. This is a serious problem. 12/34
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(6) Banning specific curricular materials like the 1619 Project in public K-12 schools, whether or not you agree with doing so, is within the power of the government in many states. (13/34) https://casetext.com/case/chiras-v-miller …
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(7) Misleading reporting has muddied the waters. For example (though not a “divisive concepts” bill), coverage of Florida’s SB264 has focused on how it allegedly creates a mandatory political registry of students & professors. (14/34)https://www.salon.com/2021/06/23/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-florida-students-professors-to-register-political-views-with-state/ …
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But what the bill actually calls for is a statistically valid survey of campus speech attitudes. It does not require everyone participate, or that political affiliation of individuals even be surveyed, let alone made identifiable or published. (15/34) https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=126670.DOCX&DocumentType=Amendments&BillNumber=0264&Session=2021 …
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It is frustrating when people ask why FIRE hasn’t opposed a bill for something that is demonstrably not in that bill due to misleading reporting. (Especially when, for other reasons, we actually DID oppose the bill.) (16/34)https://www.thefire.org/florida-legislation-on-recording-classes-invites-gotcha-politics-into-the-classroom/ …
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FWIW, FIRE would oppose efforts to create a mandatory political registry of students & professors as a violation of freedom of conscience—we’ve done so before—but that is not what’s going on here. See
@jadler1969’s excellent work for more... (17/34)https://reason.com/volokh/2021/06/24/does-a-new-florida-law-require-state-universities-to-monitor-faculty-and-student-beliefs/ …1 reply 13 retweets 90 likesShow this thread -
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(9) Proponents & critics of these bills are largely talking past each other. Meanwhile, there are legitimately concerning cases of K-12 students being singled out due to their race. Some are documented in my co-author’s forthcoming book: (18/34)https://www.amazon.com/Undoctrinate-Politicized-Classrooms-Schools_and-About/dp/1642939129/ …
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Wise or not, these bills try to address that problem. w/ skyrocketing rates of anxiety among young people it's not hard to see why some would want to prohibit teaching kids that they should feel “guilt or anguish” due to immutable characteristics. (19/34)https://www.thefire.org/catching-up-with-coddling-part-two-trigger-warnings-screen-time-v-social-media-covid-19-and-the-continuing-decline-of-gen-zs-mental-health/ …
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I honestly don't see how you can teach elementary moral responsibility given your parameters. For that matter, you can't even teach Lincoln's Second Inaugural, which spoke of multi-generational moral debt.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @glukianoff
Somehow, I don't think that "this war is a terrible but just price we're paying for generations of slavery" is equivalent to pillorying a college freshman from a poor white family for her "privilege"
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Lincoln expressed an idea (multi-generational communal responsibility) that is pretty explicitly targeted by many of the anti-CRT bills as verboten.
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