Our Kids Deserve the Honest Truth About U.S. History

Efforts to ban authentic discussions of race in the classroom deprive students of information essential to their understanding of our country and themselves.

As we approach Juneteenth, it is not the first time my students and I have talked about the history of this day. Over the past four years, the students I have taught from second through fifth grade have learned about slavery, the Civil War and all the events leading up to the freeing of the last enslaved people in the United States.