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News you won't get from the liberal media!

After you went to bed Tuesday night your State Board of Education in Ohio passed a resolution you may not have heard about.

From Kirsten Hill, State School Board Member

Racism and inequities against blacks, indigenous and people of color addressed in late night resolution passed by the Ohio State Board of Education

Ohio - A resolution declaring Ohio and its education system as systemically racist against blacks, indigenous people and people of color and in need of internal examination, correction for achievement gaps, disparate discipline, white privilege, white supremacy, cultural insensitivity, hate speech and implicit bias was approved by the Ohio State Board of Education in a 12 to 5 vote at 11:00 pm on Tuesday, July 14, 2020.

Kohler Racism Resolution Vote Tally: Yes - Dackin, Dodd, Haycock, Johnson, Kohler, LaMoncha, Manchester, Miranda, Owens, Poklar, Toal, Wilkinson; No - Fowler Arthur, Hagan, Hill, McGuire, Woods; Abstain - Kilgore

The state's academic standards, curriculum, resources and tests are to be reviewed to eliminate cultural insensitivity, racial bias, white privilege and white supremacy. The state education department is instructed to provide support to local school districts to do the same. State employees and contractors to schools are required to attend implicit bias training. Training for board members, state and local, is to take place to address the ills.

Ohio State Board of Education has 19 members; 11 elected and 8 governor-appointed. See here: https://kirstenhill.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Item-20-Laura-Kohler-Equity-Resolution-as-proposed.pdf

And then there's this from the We the People Convention regarding the State Board of Education.

Will ANY Ohio Republican Defend OUR Children and tell the Truth about How the Ohio State Board of Education and the Teachers Unions are acting to hurt OUR Children?

Read this Email from the ignorant leftist State School Superintendent Paolo DeMaria who thinks that the most Trusted Source for Information on the totally discredited racist "1619 Project" is the NEW YORK TIMES!! Are you insane!

No DeMaria and the Democrats are just Communists who hate America and will destroy your kids eduction in order to destroy America IF WE LET THEM!

From: [email protected] < [email protected] >

Date: Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:54 PM

Subject: Project 1619

To: [email protected] < [email protected] >

Cc: [email protected] < [email protected] >, [email protected] < [email protected] >

Board Members,

I noted this evening that two people have signed up to provide testimony on the "1619 Project" tomorrow. Coincidentally, I recently spent some time educating myself on this Project and some of the differing points of view around it. I wanted to share with you some information that helped me better understand the nature of the issues, and yet how the project is nevertheless seen as having merit. Here's more detail:

The best layout of the differing points of view that I found was this critique-and-response in the New York Times - where those who have issue with the Project lay out their case, and the New York Times editor provides the supporting point of view. (Seriously??? The propagandist who said in writing three years ago that they no longer can tell the truth and must do whatever it takes to defeat Trump?) This is at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html
To me, the best unbiased review (Not even close) reflecting on the differing points of view comes from the American Historical Review (AHR) at https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/125/1/xv/5714757 published in Feb. 2020. The American Historical Review is the official journal of the American Historical Association. In the editorial, the chief editor of the Review makes the point that while one essay in the 1619 Project collection may have a few debatable representations (REALLY??), it is hardly a good reason to dismiss the entire body of work. Specifically he says, "So far, the critiques by historians have paid little or no attention to the section based on the NMAAHC [National Museum of African American History and Culture] material. I have yet to see mention of Khalil Muhammad's essay on sugar, Tiya Miles's reflections on the entangled histories of Wall Street and enslavement, or Kevin Kruse's account of the racist origins of urban sprawl. Essays on music, public health, mass incarceration, and more seem to go unmentioned either by the Trotskyists [critics] or in the [critical] historians' letter. To my knowledge, no specific, detailed analysis of the proposed K-12 curriculum accompanying the 1619 Project has yet been offered by teachers or scholars of history-teaching. I find these lacunae puzzling and ultimately inadequate to the vigor of the objections." So the AHR found no reason to dismiss the Project. (What a surprise the communists would find no reason to dismiss this pack of lies about American History!)
The Project is listed as a resource by the Ohio History Connection as part of a recent (June 2020) civil rights history blog post at https://www.ohiohistory.org/learn/collections/history/history-blog/june-2020/civilrightshistory

The one reference to the 1619 Project on the ODE webpage is three lines at the very end of the Nov. 2019 Social Studies newsletter and its accompanying EdConnection entry. This was published before the emergence of the different points of view and was based on favorable recommendations from the Public Broadcasting Service, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and Council of State Social Studies Supervisors - all reputable sources for social studies resources. (Ha ha ha, yea "reputable sources" if you are a card carrying communist!) Given the points of view of the American Historical Association and the Ohio History Connection discussed above it would seem that the 1619 Project is not an inappropriate resource. The history teachers of Ohio have the capability and professional judgement to determine its usefulness in their classrooms.

I'm sure that anyone looking for information on the 1619 Project is not finding it out from ODE! I searched Google for "1619 Project" and then looked at 20-30 pages of results - none of which include the Ohio Department of Education reference. The Project has been out since Aug. 2019, and this is the first that I've heard from anyone with any objections (You have to be kidding or just be willfully ignorant) . I've not heard a thing from any Ohio history teachers ( - because they know this is a load of socialist anti-American Garbage! ). I also think that people will be hearing more about the project regardless, given the recently announced collaboration with Oprah Winfrey to develop films and TV programs based on the project (Yea you can bet that will be objective and not socialist anti-American propaganda - Right?) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oprah-winfrey-adapt-new-york-times-1619-project-film-tv-1302370 .

Just wanted to share -- Paolo

Paolo A. DeMaria

State Superintendent of Public Instruction

25 South Front Street, 7th Floor

Columbus, Ohio 43215-4183

(614) 995-1985 | (877) 644-6338

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