A #Texas lawmaker who drafted a new version of the bill told #NBC News that matters of “good and evil” are not subject to the #education #legislation.
But the possibility that the wave of conservative education legislation could get in the way of #Holocaust education crossed the minds of education observers in at least some places over the last year.
“Under this law, it would be impossible to teach that Nazi #Germany was inherently anti-Semitic, or that the Third Reich oppressed Jews simply because they were Jews, because that would identify #Nazis as inherently biased and Jews as inherently and systemically oppressed,” Russel Neiss, a Jewish educator in St Louis, wrote in the St. Louis Jewish Light in May about legislation that had been proposed in #Missouri. Lawmakers there are continuing to push for anti-critical race theory rules for schools.
The episode comes a year after a #Florida school district fired a principal — twice — who told a parent that he could not say the #Holocaust was “an actual, factual event” because not all parents shared the same belief. Florida’s school board has since enacted a ban on #Holocaustdenial in schools — as part of a ban on teaching #criticalracetheory.

https://www.jta.org/2021/10/14/united-states/texas-official-to-teachers-state-law-requires-teaching-opposing-views-on-the-holocaust #usa #politics #antisemism #republicans