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Renaming slavery as "involuntary relocation" proposed to the Texas State Board of Education [1]

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Date: 2022-06-30

A group of nine educators, who may be part of the Texas Education Agency, submitted a proposal to the Texas State Board of Education to revise the social studies curriculum for second graders by referring to slavery as “involuntary relocation”; “voluntary Irish immigration” to the United States would be compared to “involuntary relocation of African people during colonial times”. The process of updating the curriculum in Texas schools occurs once every decade, and the vote to enshrine any changes to the curriculum will occur in November.

A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as “involuntary relocation” during second grade social studies instruction, but board members have asked them to reconsider the phrasing, according to the state board’s chair. “The board -- with unanimous consent -- directed the work group to revisit that specific language,” Keven Ellis, chair of the Texas State Board of Education said in a statement issued late Thursday. The working group of nine educators, including a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is one of many such groups advising the state education board to make curriculum changes.

x Only in Texas: the Texas Education Agency is proposing to the State Board of Education (who decides state curriculum) to change the word “slavery” to “involuntary relocation”. The SBOE hearings on social studies curriculum are this summer. @UnitedSua — Sherrie Matula☮️ (@sherriematula) June 30, 2022

Texas State Board of Education member Aicha Davis, who represents Dallas and Fort Worth in SBOE District 13, decried these changes. She stated, “I don’t like it because it’s a personal belief. I don’t like it because it’s not rooted in truth. We can have all the discussions we want, but we have to adopt the truth for our students.”

Yes, I want to look at Grade 2. The phrase “involuntary relocation” is used when we’re talking about the slave trade, and “involuntary relocation”, like when my seat moves, I don’t volunteer for that. I don’t know if that’s a fair representation of what we should be saying about that journey.

This all comes after last year’s passage of Texas’s SB3, a law that regulates how slavery and race are thought in Texas. More specifically, slavery cannot be taught as a foundation for the creation of the United States, and it can only be taught as little more than an aberration from American values. The law was passed amid heated debates over critical race theory, which is not taught within either primary education or secondary education.

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