As another example, here’s the book I read to first graders online during Black History Month, to get them thinking about ways they could be positive citizens fighting for justice. Does it show Martin Luther King speaking to them from beyond the grave about racist white assassins?
Teachers who do this work aren’t raging Marxists plotting the downfall of Whitey, any more than 1980s day care workers were Satan worshippers drinking the blood of children.
I imagined you a middle school grade level teacher. Or is this middle school level reading these days? 
I teach in the academically gifted department, which means I serve kids K-5, both in whole-class lessons and in smaller pull-out groups.
My day care lady was too busy chain-smoking and trying to make me eat pimento-loaf and mayo sandwiches…
So almost the same thing to 6-year-old me 
Geez, talk about giving Satanic child abuse a bad name!
Pimento loaf is definitely a tool of the Devil.
Good afternoon SunUp,
My read of the paragraphs you cited is that the penalties only apply to a violation of point #1. If a teacher (or administrator, school board member, etc) requires other teachers to discuss controversial issues which are not essential to course learning objectives, they become liable to the penalties. My read is that the penalties you quoted do not apply to a teacher who decides on her own to have discussions of controversial issues in class, but does not present the diverse and contending perspectives.
~Max, not a lawyer
Postive news here:
High schools could lose AP classes if they ban ‘required topics’ from being taught
The College Board says schools that fail to teach topics outlined by the Advanced Placement program could lose AP designation for those classes.
Makes my day. This is almost as great as the day some years back when the state of California told those fundamentalist-run schools that their teaching ID meant their students’ high school diplomas are worthless.
Well if critical race ‘theory’ isn’t being taught in high school I’m not sure how it’s required for an AP course.
It isn’t…but it is surprising (or maybe it isn’t) what is being labeled “Critical Race Theory” by ignorant assholes just to stop it from being discussed in school.
Indeed. Certain folks are simply slapping a “CRT” label on elements of American history they would prefer people not know about, and are using that to ban it from being taught.
Strangely, many of these people are also the ones who rail about “cancel culture” and “history being erased”.