Abigail Spanberger signed a law requiring Virginia education officials to review how January 6 is taught in schools

[applegrove]

NEWS: Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a law requiring Virginia education officials to review how January 6 is taught in schools—pushing back against efforts to rewrite history and whitewash the attack on our democracy.

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-06-01T00:04:28.629Z

[Solly Mack]

1. Good. Add how the Civil War is taught as well. Include the period after the war.

Kill that "lost cause" bullshit.

[applegrove]

2. I was taught the Civil War was not fought on slavery

(Ottawa, Canada highschool in the early 1980s). Our teacher made a point of making that clear.

[Solly Mack]

4. Your teacher taught you a lie.

[applegrove]

5. Yup.

[Solly Mack]

6. Several of mine did too.

[efhmc]

7. In Texas I was taught that it was about slavery. I was also taught that Reconstruction was a failure.

[erronis]

9. I can't remember where I heard that the real casus belli was economic - which is also true.

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Could have been in grade school in NY or college in KS.

Having tried to read/understand this issue, it does seem that the Southerners were afraid of losing their economy if they could no longer rely on slavery. They didn't have great industry like the North, and their white children weren't able to work very hard.

[applegrove]

10. In other words they fought to keep slavery.

[erronis]

12. Yes. Just a way of saying it is something else.

[Norrrm]

3. Teach what 'peaceful tourists' really means.

[dave99]

8. YEA !!! Telll how those asshats fucked up the US Capital for that shitstain !

[nitpicked]

11. You mean they "gasp" now teach about history more recent than WWII these days?

That's about as far as my secondary school classes ever got.

((Of course, this was well before the fall of the Soviet Union.))