With it’s anniversary approaching, how do teachers teach January 6, 2021?

[evince]

The Republican Party will never go back to honoring truth and facts



The party needs to die

 

[evince]

The Republican Party is now a lie generating death cult

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

If we're trying to promote critical thinking (on any topic), rather than just a position, I really like what you just laid out.

Thanks. That's how I taught my own kids, even if it meant they often questioned me and what I believe. Give kids the means to think for themselves if you want to keep them safe.

 

[archives]

Investigations into election fraud. Audits of state votes, and fast track checking the Constitutionality of what some of them did.

And do you think, especially considering there already had been umpteen investigations, recounts, law suits, audits, and Trump himself trying to personally change votes, that any of that would have been easily accepted by the majority of Americans?

Doubtful any of it would have occurred, more likely, Trump would have declared martial law, really confusing the military, and if successful, there never would have been another election, nor even the Constitutional processes of confirming a President

 

[BartenderElite]

Investigations into election fraud. Audits of state votes, and fast track checking the Constitutionality of what some of them did.

I disagree.

They would have done whatever they could to flip results in key areas - whether it was legit or not. They wouldn't have cared about Consitutionality (obviously, since they didn't w/ Pence's role).

 

[archives]

Thanks. That's how I taught my own kids, even if it meant they often questioned me and what I believe. Give kids the means to think for themselves if you want to keep them safe.

Good approach, however, just for conversation sake, then you get into what are you going employ to present to them with the events of the day, what video and how much of it do you show, and that content in itself doesn’t occur in a vacuum, background of some sort has to be included

 

[cawacko]

Thanks. That's how I taught my own kids, even if it meant they often questioned me and what I believe. Give kids the means to think for themselves if you want to keep them safe.

I agree with that completely and hope to do the same for my daughter. These echo chambers people engage in and safe spaces etc. do the opposite to me. It always feels good to be around people who affirm your views but from a growth perspective being challenged, or at least hearing opposing arguments and positions, to me helps lead to growth. That's important for all of us, especially young people.

 

[BidenPresident]

I agree with that completely and hope to do the same for my daughter. These echo chambers people engage in and safe spaces etc. do the opposite to me. It always feels good to be around people who affirm your views but from a growth perspective being challenged, or at least hearing opposing arguments and positions, to me helps lead to growth. That's important for all of us, especially young people.

Yet you put people on ignore because you disagree with them.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Good approach, however, just for conversation sake, then you get into what are you going employ to present to them with the events of the day, what video and how much of it do you show, and that content in itself doesn’t occur in a vacuum, background of some sort has to be included

Yes, the timeline. Congress meets to certify the vote. Trump gives a speech. Trump ppl go to the Capitol and force their way in. Show the legislators inside, being taken to safety. Show the end of the siege. Show the damage inside. Show video from various angles, w/o sound (you don't want to have commentary that might be influential). Show Trump telling them to go home. Just that. No need to follow up on arrests, deaths, etc.

 

[cawacko]

Good approach, however, just for conversation sake, then you get into what are you going employ to present to them with the events of the day, what video and how much of it do you show, and that content in itself doesn’t occur in a vacuum, background of some sort has to be included

Specifically regarding Jan 6th it's a fair question. Especially when we're dealing with young teenagers for whom many national politics means little to them. (It's not that these kids aren't smart or inquisitive etc. but having just spent Christmas Break around my 8th grade niece and her friends, their priorities at this time in their life doesn't revolve around debating/discussing national politics.)

 

[Grumpy]

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With it’s anniversary approaching, how do teachers teach January 6, 2021?

The same way they've been teaching it for the last year ... along with CRT lessons.

 

[zymurgy]

it is sandwiched right between Hillary wiping a server with a cloth

and how we use whips at the southern border

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Gardner's truth: Pelosi organized the riot. Trump was on the floor fist fighting the terrorists.

That sounds more entertaining than your version which would be like a four-hour Kevin Costner movie directed by Oliver Stone...

 

[BidenPresident]

That sounds more entertaining than your version which would be like a four-hour Kevin Costner movie directed by Oliver Stone...

yeah blah blah blah

 

[T. A. Gardner]

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With it’s anniversary approaching, how do teachers teach January 6, 2021?

The same way they've been teaching it for the last year ... along with CRT lessons.

I can see how Communist Revolutionary Theory would go well with the Left's version of 1/6...

 

[Althea]

Yes, hard job for teachers. Right wing parents hate the truth.

I'm not sure it's a teacher's job to even address it.

Yet.

 

[Althea]

I don’t know, if Pence followed the gameplay laid out by Trump, Clark, Jordan and Meadows where do you think we would be today? What would have followed on January 7th?

Pence was insulted on a daily basis by trump after the election.

I'm sure he was sick of the nonsense.

 

[BidenPresident]

I'm not sure it's a teacher's job to even address it.

Yet.

Depends. I had a current events class. I think my history class did current events once a week. Something like that. But my understanding is that public schools don't universally have a civics class.

 

[Althea]

And, what do you call "the truth" here?

Denying that the terrorist attack was a 'peaceful gathering', as most Republicans now claim.

 

[Althea]

Depends. I had a current events class. I think my history class did current events once a week. Something like that. But my understanding is that public schools don't universally have a civics class.

It's a slippery slope. It's already been mentioned that it might depend on the grade.

Do you jump right into a discussion, or do you allow it to come up as an aside? If students bring it up, then the discussion should take place.

Otherwise, students go home and report to their terrorist supporting parents, and we have governors threatening to withhold payment from teachers who mention it.

Not unlike teaching about our nation's horrendous history.