The Role of the Teacher

Clint, you have a ph g in education. Can i ask you to do an educational thought experiment with me? All right. So conservative book publishers are now publishing their own history books with their on narratives. Progressive school districts are going hard on their set of values. They want to keep these books that have been banned on the shelves. It seems to me that this is bound to lead to americans having vastly different understandings of what the history of this country is. Who is welcome, who is an american, who is part of society? In 20 or 30 years, if we have kids learning vastly different stories about the united states, where does this get us? What does