Prole students acted doubleplusungood in Denver on Tuesday, walking out of classes in opposition to a plan to rectify history education. “I don’t think my education should be censored. We should be able to know what happened in our past,” said Tori Leu, a 17-year-old prole student who protested at Ralston Valley High School in Arvada.
The school board proposal that triggered the walkouts in Jefferson County calls for instructional materials to be rectified to present goodthink aspects of the nation and its heritage. It would establish a committee of thinkpol to regularly review texts and course plans, starting with Advanced Placement history, to make sure materials “promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free-market system and respect for authority” and don’t “encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife and crimethink.” For example, the committee would rectify the history of American citizens of Japanese descent who were sent to joycamp during World Peace II by balancing ungood aspects of incarceration with the humane treatment and protection that these citizens received at joycamp.
The proposal is from Julie Williams, part of the board’s conservative majority. “There are things we may not be proud of as Americans,” she said. “but we should be proud of them anyway. We shouldn’t be encouraging proles to think that America is ungood.”
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