Texas school leader suggests balancing Holocaust with ‘opposing’ views – By Priscilla Aguirre (MySA) / Oct 14 2021
In a secret recording, a Texas school administrator advised teachers to have an “opposing” book regarding the Holocaust – also known as the genocide of millions of European Jews during World War II.
The school leader works with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, near Dallas-Forth Worth. According to audio obtained by NBC News, Gina Peddy, the Carroll school district’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, made the comment during a training session on which books teachers can have in classroom libraries.
Carroll ISD held the training camp to respond to a parent’s complaint of how the board reprimand a fourth-grade teacher who had kept an anti-racism book in her classroom. A Carroll staff member secretly recorded the training and shared the audio with NBC News.
In the recording, Peddy told the teachers to remember the concept of House Bill 3979, which is a new Texas law that requires teachers to present multiple perspectives when discussing “widely debated and currently controversial” issues.
