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How to Teach Required Curriculum That Erases Your Heritage

I teach my students about Columbus Day while knowing the real history of genocide, but the curriculum requires me to perpetuate the myth my own ancestors suffered under.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional obligations force participation in the very narratives that marginalize one's own people and history.

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