The third version of the standards includes language that notes that America’s history is fraught and complicated and must be taught with nuance and honesty.
, which total 68 pages and describe what kindergartners through 12th-graders should learn about state and national history, will come before the state’s Board of Education for a first review early next month, although final approval from the board — which will come after statewide public hearings and an online comment-gathering period — is probably still months away.
“Students will know our nation’s exceptional strengths, including individual innovation, moral character, ingenuity and adventure,” the guidelines state, “while learning from terrible periods and actions in direct conflict with these ideals.” For example, one bullet point in this section states “students should be exposed to the facts of our past, even when those facts are uncomfortable” — but adds that “teachers should engage students in age-appropriate ways that do not suggest students are responsible for historical wrongs based on immutable characteristics, such as race or ethnicity.
And, in apparent recognition of right-wing concerns that parents are being cut out of the public school system, a third bullet point states that “parents should have open access to all instructional materials utilized in any Virginia public school.”The previous version drew anger from left-leaning education advocates and politicians for failing to suggest that young students celebrate a wide variety of holidays — and leaving out mention of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. until fifth grade.
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