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THE HISTORY WARS Responding to
Olivia B. Waxman’s July 5/July 12 cover story
on how the controversy over critical race
theory (CRT) is impacting a St. Louis school
district, readers highlighted the importance
of learning history—
and learning from
it. “Historical con-
text is extremely
important” as part
of a “reconciliation
with our past,” wrote
Kathleen Sallee of
Ames, Iowa. “It is not
to make us feel bad
but to enlighten us
to be who we were
meant to be.” But
Shari Deranja of Ballwin, Mo., a town within
the school district featured in Waxman’s
piece, worries that teachers are trying to do
too much: “I do not want ANYONE teach-
ing my child morals and values as part of a
curriculum or lesson plan,” Deranja wrote.
“That is MY responsibility as a parent.”
“It’s not the ‘claims of systemic racism’
that threaten national unity. It’s the
systemic racism,” wrote @IAmJenMcG
on Twitter of CRT being seen as tied
to larger racial-
justice movements,
while Jason Milke, a
high school history
teacher in Waverly,
Iowa, voiced concerns
about the issue being
politicized, with
eff orts “to change/
divide how history is
taught.” Jane Taeger
of St. Augustine, Fla.,
argued that such
change is both fair
and inevitable. “My
children’s generation is not the same as
mine, nor my parents’, nor their parents’,”
Taeger wrote. “As history and society
continue to evolve, so should the school
curricula.”‘There
stands to
be so many
education
leaders
lost to this
witch-hunt.’
@MSBERBIAGE,
on Twitter‘Many
Americans
know little
about
the past,
so how
can they
question it?’
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