Alberta is often regarded as the Texas of the North for their mutual conservative political cultures, as well as dependence on oil and gas revenues. But recent controversies in each jurisdiction over how educators should approach teaching about the Holocaust also provide a point of comparison. Gina Peddy, an administrator with the Carroll Independent School Division in Southlake, Texas—a Fort Worth suburb—elicited outrage in October when she told educators that if they are to teach about the horrors of the Holocaust, they must also provide an “opposing” perspective, NBC News reported . The intention was to align the school board’s...
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