{"id":181365,"date":"2021-10-15T17:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/in-one-texas-district-teachers-were-told-to-give-opposing-views-of-the-holocaust"},"modified":"2022-10-13T23:38:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T23:38:43","slug":"in-one-texas-district-teachers-were-told-to-give-opposing-views-of-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/in-one-texas-district-teachers-were-told-to-give-opposing-views-of-the-holocaust","title":{"rendered":"In one Texas district, teachers were told to give &#8216;opposing&#8217; views of the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas school district has once again become the center of controversy after an administrator reportedly instructed teachers to provide students with &#8220;opposing&#8221; views of the Holocaust.Gina Peddy, the executive director of curriculum and instruction for the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, is alleged to have made the comments during a meeting last Friday, according to NBC News, which obtained audio of the meeting from an unnamed employee. Peddy was reportedly meeting with teachers to instruct them on how to stock their classroom libraries when the subject of recent statewide legislation, as well as the Holocaust, came up.&#8221;Just try to remember the concepts of [House Bill] 3979,&#8221; Peddy could be heard saying on tape, according to NBC News. &#8220;And make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives.&#8221;House Bill 3979, which went into effect last month, mandates, among other things, that if public school<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas school district has once again become the center of controversy after an administrator reportedly instructed teachers to provide students with &#8220;opposing&#8221; views of the Holocaust. Gina Peddy, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,55],"class_list":["post-181365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-education","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}