MAGA Has Yet Another Educational Bogeyman

First, MAGA came for CRT. How dare they teach our children about actual history instead of their preferred whitewashed version! Then they came for DEI. How dare they teach our children that people with different skin color or different gender identity or different gender orientation are equal to cis white people!

Now, MAGA is coming for social studies:

Sarah Kopplin is a social studies teacher at Shorewood Intermediate School and president of the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies. She said an alarming number of social studies teachers around the state have seen pushback on their lessons about elections and other current events.

A survey from the council found 42 percent of council member respondents reported that building administration, school boards or community members lodged complaints or put restrictions on lessons related to politics, an election or current events, Kopplin said on WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.”

Sherri Michalowski taught social studies in Wisconsin for 40 years. She said the political pressures facing her profession have gotten more intense in recent years. She cited that problem as one of her reasons for retiring back in 2022.

“I just didn’t think I could play that game of having to be too careful all the time,” she said.

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