School Board BANS Teachers From Talking About Capitol Riot

A school board in Pennsylvania forbade social studies teachers throughout the county from talking about the Capitol Riot on the anniversary of the event. The school board president happens to be a big Trump supporter, so it is little surprise that they would ban teachers from talking about what really happened that day. Farron Cousins explains what's happening and why it is so damaging for students. Link - https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump... Don't forget to like, comment, and share! And subscribe to stay connected! Connect with Farron on Twitter:   / farronbalanced   *This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos. Yesterday was the anniversary of the January 6th, capital riot slash insurrection slash co attempt, whatever you want to call it, but it was the one year anniversary of it. And in at least one school district in the state of Pennsylvania, you weren't allowed to talk about it at all. That was the decision that the school board, which has a school board president that is a Trump sub supporter issued on Wednesday evening. They sent out an email that said, uh, the following, uh, if students ask about the insurrections teachers should simply state that the investigation is ongoing and ask historians. We must wait until there is some distance from the event for us to accurately interpret it. And the email concluded by telling teachers just stick to business as usual. And this was districtwide and it was since specifically to social studies teachers, which means it was sent to the teachers who have the kids who are old enough to understand exactly what happened. And again, this is a school board run by an individual who was a huge Trump supporter telling teachers, you can't talk about current events. You can't talk about what of the monumentous occasions that these kids have lived through because of course, being in middle school, high school, they weren't alive through nine 11. So this was the thing for them much like those of us like me, I was 18 on nine 11. Yeah. That leaves a big impression on a young mind, the same way. The January 6th insurrection capital riot left a big impression on these children. And they're not allowed to talk about it. Oh, we don't know what happened yet. And as historian, you're not a historian. You're a teacher. There is a world of frigging difference. A historian is an actual job as his teacher. And sure, there's a little bit of overlap there, but teachers are not historians, unless you're a history professor with a PhD at the collegiate level. That's not what these people are. These are people teaching social studies, you know, American government, things like that. Current history too. And you're telling them, you are not allowed to talk, talk about it because we don't know all the facts. We may not know everything that happened behind the scenes, but we know what happened in front of our eyes. And that was a group of deranged. Trump supporters stormed the capital. Some of them chanting, hang Mike Pence. Some of them breaking windows, breaking furniture, stealing things. And they did all this because they wanted to disrupt the electoral college vote counting because they wanted Trump to still get to be president. That is what happened. That is unequivocal. If you deny that you are denying reality and what you're telling teachers, or what You told teachers this week was you can't teach reality. It's a polarizing subject. You right. It's a polarizing subject because you got a gaggle of insane conservatives that wanted to overthrow the federal government. It is a partisan issue. It is political because one of our political lost their minds because they followed a con man who, for some reason, they believed to be the second coming of Jesus Christ. That's what happened. And sure. Maybe you could find a better way to explain it to children than what I just did. But that doesn't mean that what I just said, whatt accurate because that's what happened. We, it unfold and it is an absolute disgrace for this school district to tell teachers that you can't even talk about what happened on that day.