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Massachusetts History Class Forced Students To Comment On How ‘Systemic Racism’ Impacted George Floyd

Chrissy Clark
Massachusetts History Class Forced Students To Comment On How ‘Systemic Racism’ Impacted George Floyd
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A 10th-grade U.S. history class in Concord, Massachusetts, forced students to comment on how “systemic racism” “impacted” George Floyd’s life. 

According to the organization Parents Defending Education (PDE), a history class at Concord Carlisle High School assigned students to read a Washington Post article about George Floyd’s life. The article is titled, “Born with Two Strikes: How Systemic Racism Shaped Floyd’s Life and Hobbled his Ambition.” The article argues that the strictures of “systemic racism” led to Floyd’s death. 

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