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October 15, 2021

Texas School Official Instructs Educators to Teach Students "Opposing" Views on Holocaust
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In other news from Texas, a top administrator with the Carroll
Independent School District in Southlake has come under fire for telling
teachers they should offer students books with "opposing" perspectives
on the Holocaust. Gina Peddy is the district's executive director of
curriculum and instruction. In a recording obtained by NBC News, Peddy
advises teachers on how to comply with Texas's new state law, House Bill
3979, which requires them to present multiple perspectives about "widely
debated and currently controversial" issues.

Gina Peddy: "As you go through, just try to remember the concepts of
3979 and make sure that if - if you have a book on the Holocaust, that
you have one that has opposing - that has other perspectives.

Teacher 1: "How do you oppose the Holocaust?"

Teacher 2: "What? What?"

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has praised House Bill 3979 as "a strong move
to abolish critical race theory."


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