Alex Blaze  California Considers Queering History  Filed By Alex
Blaze | April 04, 2011 12:00 PM | comments  Filed in: Politics
Tags: California, education policy, Mark Leno, schools  Karen
posted about this bill a while back but it looks like it's
gaining speed:   The proposal would require that social science
texts and other instruction include "a study of the role and
contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
Americans ... to the economic, political and social development
of California and the United States of America, with particular
emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary
society."  Each school district would decide which age groups
received such instruction.  That's a great step for California
schools to take. While teaching about the sexuality of historic
figures is problematic, let's not be precious and assume that
schools are currently neutral on questions of sexuality. I
remember being taught in 9th grade world history that the
downfall of the Roman Empire was c