{"id":1188455,"date":"2022-01-04T19:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188455"},"modified":"2022-01-04T19:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:49:45","slug":"report-teachers-planning-leftist-lessons-on-january-6-insurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-teachers-planning-leftist-lessons-on-january-6-insurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Teachers Planning Leftist Lessons on January 6 \u2018Insurrection\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-teachers-planning-leftist-lessons-on-january-6-insurrection%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188455&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Violence-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">As the anniversary of the January 6, 2020 riot at the U.S. Capitol nears the media are reporting that teachers are planning lessons that reflect the left\u2019s version of what took place on that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat students are learning about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 may depend on where they live,\u201d the Associated Press (AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2022\/01\/04\/nation\/teachers-culture-war-front-lines-with-jan-6-education\/?et_rid=817383413&amp;s_campaign=todayinpolitics:newsletter\">reported<\/a>, advancing the false narrative that President Donald Trump directed his supporters to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In fact, Trump told those who attended an earlier rally at the White House to \u201cpeacefully and patriotically\u201d let their voices be heard.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Voldman, a history teacher at a school in suburban Boston, said his students would spend the day \u201cjournaling\u201d about what happened and discuss \u201cthe fragility of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said it is \u201cfair\u201d to draw parallels between January 6 and the \u201crise of fascism\u201d under Adolph Hitler.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI feel really strongly that this needs to be talked about,\u201d Voldman said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The AP reported that Liz Wagner, who teaches eighth and ninth grade social studies in a Des Moines, Iowa, suburb, said school officials sent an email telling teachers to \u201cbe careful\u201d how they reported the event:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some students questioned Wagner last year when she referred to what happened as an insurrection. She responded by having them read the dictionary definition for the word. This year, she will probably show students videos of the protest and ask them to write about what the footage shows.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is kind of what I have to do to ensure that I\u2019m not upsetting anybody,\u201d Wagner said. \u201cLast year I was on the front line of the COVID war, trying to dodge COVID and now I\u2019m on the front line of the culture war, and I don\u2019t want to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AP report continued:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Teachers now are left to decide how \u2014 or whether \u2014 to instruct their students about the events that sit at the heart of the country\u2019s division. And the lessons sometimes vary based on whether they are in a red state or a blue state.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest fear for Paula Davis, a middle school special education teacher in a rural central Indiana district, is that the discussion about what happened could be used by teachers with a political agenda to indoctrinate students. She won\u2019t discuss Jan. 6 in her classroom; her focus is math and English.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s extremely important that any teacher that is addressing that topic does so from an unbiased perspective,\u201d Davis, a regional chapter chair for Moms for Liberty, a group whose members have protested mask and vaccine mandates and critical race theory, said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it cannot be done without bias, then it should not be done,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the anniversary of the January 6, 2020 riot at the U.S. Capitol nears the media are reporting that teachers are planning lessons that reflect the left\u2019s version of what &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}