{"id":5878,"date":"2022-06-07T12:57:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T16:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/polehanki\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2022-06-07T12:57:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T16:57:28","slug":"sens-polehanki-geiss-walk-out-of-education-committee-in-protest-of-anti-truth-in-history-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/polehanki\/2022\/06\/07\/sens-polehanki-geiss-walk-out-of-education-committee-in-protest-of-anti-truth-in-history-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Polehanki, Geiss Walk Out of Education Committee in Protest of Anti-Truth in History Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LANSING, Mich. (June 7, 2022) \u2014 Today, Senate Education and Career Readiness Committee Minority Vice Chair Sen.&nbsp;<strong>Dayna Polehanki&nbsp;<\/strong>(D-Livonia) and fellow committee member Sen.&nbsp;<strong>Erika Geiss<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Taylor) walked out of a committee hearing on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.mi.gov\/doc.aspx?2021-HB-5097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Bill 5097<\/a>, which would ban the teaching of true and honest history based on race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m tired of white legislators like Rep. Beeler and Committee Chair Sen. Lana Theis (R-Brighton) lecturing Black people that the United States is post-racial and that things like \u2018privilege\u2019 or \u2018oppression\u2019 based on race no longer exist,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Polehanki<\/strong>&nbsp;said. \u201cRep. Beeler\u2019s bill is yet another in a long line of \u2018happy history\u2019 bills introduced by Republicans, which are designed to terrify teachers into avoiding any meaningful discussion about racial discrimination on pain of losing their jobs or causing school funding to be withheld.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHouse Bill 5097 is not a serious bill from a serious person, and to entertain it devalues our work here as legislators and as former educators,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Geiss<\/strong>&nbsp;said. \u201cThis bill does nothing to address the pressing issues we have in education policy while wasting time and stirring up the hysterical conspiracy theorists of their base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe reason we know this bill is remarkably not serious is that the language on page 2, lines 6-8 and repeated on page 3, lines 18-21 would prohibit the exact gender stereotyping of transgender students that their very own party has been promoting. While I\u2019d love to applaud the representative for trying to protect transgender kids, doing so would be hollow since protecting transgender kids \u2014 like teaching the true history of America \u2014 was never the intent of his bill. The intent is an attempt at a gentler, more nuancedand ambiguous way to disrupt the ability of teachers to teach truth than Sen. Theis\u2019 bill of a similar topic and is unworthy of consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING, Mich. 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