This is authoritarian. Teachers should set up discovery activities with primary sources for students to decide for themselves whether racism or sexism are responsible for past actions in history and to be able to defend their conclusions. They shouldn't be told that those motivations are responsible and they shouldn't be prohibited from evaluating the evidence that they are either.
Re the Idaho law, my view:
Not even slavery and Jim Crow?
This is authoritarian. Teachers should set up discovery activities with primary sources for students to decide for themselves whether racism or sexism are responsible for past actions in history and to be able to defend their conclusions. They shouldn't be told that those motivations are responsible and they shouldn't be prohibited from evaluating the evidence that they are either.