Being a public school teacher is a thankless enough job as is, without the prospect of millions of dollars worth of fines being levied against your school district because you had the audacity to teach the unimpeachable truth that the United States might not be a perfect capitalist utopia.
That, however, is the unappealing prospect facing educators in Tennessee, thanks to a new guidance released by the state's Department of Education last week. The proposal details potential penalties for teachers and schools that knowingly violate a recently passed law banning the teaching of so-called "critical race theory" (itself a very specific academic framework that has been co-opted as the latest meaningless buzzword for GOP culture warriors who are too chickenshit to just say "racism").
