New Hampshire
Related: About this forumEducation bill would mandate classes on labor history
An education bill filed in the New Hampshire House of Representatives this month seeks to make lessons about labor history a mandatory part of New Hampshire middle and high school history curriculum.
The bills primary sponsor, Rep. Eric Gallager (D-Concord), told the House Education Committee on Tuesday that adding teaching about labor history in schools would give students knowledge that could be useful to them in practice when they enter the workforce.
One thing I heard a lot in the school system growing up was that teachers are trying to prepare students for the workplace, for getting a job, for what theyre going to do when they grow up, Gallager said. Its biased toward the employers point of view, and theres not really as much education from the workers point of view of what sort of skills they might need to stand up to their boss, to fight for higher wages or better working conditions.
The bill, HB1144, would update RSA 89:11, the state law that regulates history education, to include a line requiring instruction of labor history. Currently, the law requires lessons about civic engagement, the U.S. and New Hampshire constitutions, the governments role in making laws and regulating economic activity, and how intolerance and discrimination can lead to genocide such as the Holocaust.
Read more: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Teaching-Labor-History-in-Schools-44637894
MyOwnPeace
(17,273 posts)So that those that don't know how to argue about CRT, let's give them this:
You can teach 'labor history' - but you are not allowed to use the words "UNION" or "STRIKE"
You cannot mention "Homestead Strike" or "Pinkerton Agents"
Well, maybe the students WILL learn something - just from the fights to keep them 'not knowing!'
TexasTowelie
(116,749 posts)that they thought a class about labor history was a meeting to watch and discuss a video about how women gave birth in the past and in current times.
MyOwnPeace
(17,273 posts)the "porn police" would be on the 'hot-line' to the governor SO FAST!!!!!
3Hotdogs
(13,394 posts)Knights of Labor.... Wild Bill Haywood, Matwan and so forth. Oh, and the original Populist Party.