‘Slavery was wrong’ and 5 other things some educators won’t teach anymore
In the following, Greg Wickenkamp is an eighth-grade social studies teacher, and Noll is Superintendent Laurie Noll. This was Iowa.
She continued: “To say ‘Is slavery wrong?’ — I really need to delve into it to see is that part of what we can or cannot say. And I don’t know that, Greg, because I just don’t have that. So I need to know more on that side.”\
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As Wickenkamp raised his eyebrows and pursed his lips, she added, “I’m sorry, on that part.”\
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Wickenkamp left the Zoom call. At the close of the year, he left the teaching profession.\
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Contacted for comment, Noll wrote in a statement that “the district provided support to Greg with content through a neighboring school district social studies department head.” She did not answer a question asking whether she thinks teachers should be permitted to tell children that slavery was wrong.
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