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State Republican leaders encourage Tennessee teachers, particularly geography teachers, to use the names of America and Mount McKinley when talking to students about the location of maps that President Donald Trump recently rebranded. A resolution has been introduced.
As a proposed resolution rather than a law, this measure, if approved, does not impose any duties or requirements on teachers.
Sen. Botson, a Republican and state Sen. Hixon, who chairs the Senate Treasury Committee, presented to him. Solved On Thursday and by the end of the day, it had gathered 19 co-sponsors, including Lt. Col. Randy McNally, to secure a 33-member Senate passage. invoice There are no co-sponsors listed at the house on Friday morning.
Watson’s resolution follows Trump’s resolution Presidential Order It has renamed the Gulf of America to the waters known internationally as the Gulf of Mexico for 400 years. Orders entitled “Restoring Names to Celebrate America’s Greatness” have also been reversed. President Barack Obama’s 2015 Presidential Order Mount Mount Mount in Alaska is named Denali, the native Alaska name on this site.
Everyone has the right to submit a solution if they think it is important, but that is not something I support.
– Senate minority leader Ramesh Akbari, Memphis
Iowa Republican lawmakers already have it I’ve proceeded with the invoice That would require schools to change educational materials and map names that match Trump’s “America First” worldview.
Tennessee’s proposal most sincerely told President Trump, “The naming of our national treasures should respect the contributions of foresight and patriotic Americans in our country’s rich past.” I agree.”
On Friday, Senate Democrats called the resolution a “distraction” on key educational issues aimed at preparing students for work tomorrow.
“Everyone has the right to submit a resolution if you think it’s important, but that’s not what I support,” said Raumesh Akbari, Senate Minority Leader in Memphis.
Trump’s order has already sparked reflection, debate and debate among teachers, as well as cartifiers, journalists and textbook publishers.
Mark Fincham, executive director of the Tennessee Social Studies Council, has not yet held a position or provided guidance to social studies teachers that are members of his organization. He said.
Fincham, a retired Jefferson County social studies teacher, said:
“I don’t think they’ll ignore this topic, but I don’t think they’ll just call it the Gulf of America and continue their lesson,” he said. “In Tennessee, geography is primarily taught in middle and high schools, so these students are old enough to hear the word Gulf of Mexico. If you call it the Gulf of America, then some students is about to raise their hands.”
Tennessee voted overwhelmingly for Trump last fall, and has been an early adopter of laws that rob the culture war fight over education in recent years, as Republicans have a solid grasp of the state government.
In 2021, it became one of the first states I will enact the law It aims to limit K-12 classroom discussions about race, gender and bias. There is that law Challenged in court By a group of teachers and the largest teacher organization in the state.
Under Republican Gov. Bill Lee, Congress has also passed several laws leading to Purge hundreds of library books There are titles from public schools, including race, sex, and the Holocaust Most frequently targets.
And earlier this month, Watson introduced a bill that would allow school districts and charter schools. Undocumented students prohibit registrationwhich could challenge the US Supreme Court decision of 1982, giving all children the right to appoint public education, regardless of the circumstances of their immigration.
According to his latest resolution, the waters between Florida and Mexico must be renamed due to the pivotal role of the Gulf in America’s future and shaping the global economy.
Regarding the name of the country’s highest peak in Alaska, the resolution is behind the US victory and the rapid expansion of the country in Spanish-American wars, including the annexation of Puerto Rico, Guam and Hawaii from McKinley’s administration. It quotes President William McKinley’s leadership. Until the assassination in 1897 and 1901.
Unofficially, Alaskans have been calling the snowy mountain denari, its native name for decades. President McKinley, a native of Ohio, never stepped into the state.
Malta Aldrich is a senior correspondent and covers Chalkbeat Tennessee’s state capitol. Please contact her at [email protected].
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