"History teachers are beginning the new school year in a difficult place... being singled out all over the country as either not “woke” enough or too “woke.”Constant and often contradictory messages from the left and the right, and self-censorship are on the rise as teachers and librarians either say they are going to quit or they intend to “quiet-quit” to stay off of the radars of “helicopter parents” and scared-to-death administrators. Paul Horton is a history teacher at the University of Chicago Lab School This article appeared in History Matters, the journal of the National Council on History Education.



