Like Florida and Texas, Georgia lawmakers are seeking to censor history teachers from discussing actual history and how it connects to modern day issues.  These bills are HB 1, HB 888, HB 1048, SB 226, SB 375, SB 377.

Collectively, these bills would:

- prevent Georgia and American history teachers from discussing issues of slavery and racism and how it connects to modern day problems.

- prevent students from gaining course credit for getting involved in political community activism.

- remove funding from school districts as punishment for teaching about slavery, racism, and systematic discrimination in any capacity.

- put teachers of AP courses and IB programs in difficult positions for covering required content banned by the legislature.

- possibly lead to greater teacher shortages in the public schools, especially in history classrooms.

- make it illegal for teachers and students to have honest, thoughtful discussions about how the past informs the present.

- force history teachers to be “unbiased” about events in the past that are considered wrong in the court of public opinion (slavery, Holocaust, etc)

- put students at potential risk by allowing “hate speech” on campuses under the guise of the 1st Amendment

- targets LGBT students in areas of sports

- Bans books and curriculum that contains “divisive concepts” from discussion 

As a history teacher of sixteen years, I see so many issues with this bill.  It will ruin the education of our children and create more problems with our public schools. Please show support by signing this petition! 

All bills can be found here: https://www.legis.ga.gov/

NOTE: This petition has been edited to include all bills being presented in the Georgia General Assembly.