Another read "We deserve to know the truth."
The signs were just a few lining the streets as hundreds of students from at least seven Denver-area schools walked out of their classrooms Tuesday and Wednesday to protest a proposal by a member of the Jefferson County School Board, according to CNN affiliates KDVR and KMGH.
The proposal calls for a new panel to review the schools' curricula, but that's not the part that has students and parents outraged.
It is the call for a review of the Advanced Placement curriculum for U.S. history classes to ensure that teaching materials present positive aspects of U.S. history and its heritage. According to the wording of the proposal, teaching materials should "promote citizenship, patriotism ... (and) respect for authority" and not "encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law."
"I understand that they want to take out our very important history of slavery and dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because it portrays the U.S. in a negative light," said Casey McAndrew, a high school senior.
Ben Murky, a high school junior, said, "The censorship of U.S. history is wrong, and I think it's pretty communist."
The protest followed walkouts by students on Monday and a protest Friday, when at least 50 teachers called in sick, according to KDVR.
"I think it's time we hear from the kids on how it's impacting them, because it is, and it's very scary for them what's happening here," parent Andrea Stevens said.
Jefferson County Superintendent Dan McMinimee tried to stem the outrage by stressing that no changes in the curriculum have been finalized.
"I think some students think this is a done deal when, in fact, it was a discussion by our board based on a resolution that one of our board members brought forward," McMinimee said. "There was a vigorous discussion on Thursday evening. It was tabled. "
Отсюда
В Колорадо ученики старших классов вместес учителями не пришли сегодня в школу. Они протестуют постановлению департамента образования, который постановил, что б в школьных учебниках по истории учили только позитивным достижениям Америки, для того чтобы "продвигать патриотизм, уважение к властям и не поощрать социальную борьбу и неуважение закона". О как! Ученики и учителя возмутились, что такой подход замалчивает рабство, атомные бомбардировки и, это важно, движение за гражданские права (именно оно практиковало гражданское неповиновение). "Пепел Фергюссона" стучится в чьи-то сердца, не иначе.
Хочу заметить, что по ТВ (MSNBC, Morning Joe) комментарий был с этакой ухмылочкой, что ученики всегда, мол, найдут способ, что б не идти в школу, а потусоваться и покурить траву (в Колорадо она легальна с 18 лет, а последний класс школы - как раз 18).