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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaedz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points a For education t create citizens capa e Of sef-govemnrent, students flee to engage th a variety of viewpoints on controversial issues., ed by teachers who understand there is greater va ue in p romoting vievoirnt diversity than in trurpeting their own beliefs. aLocal n state policymakers can adopt teacher codes of conduc't to stipulate that teachers are welcor'rne and encouraged to address age-appropriate controversal topics with stud-nts, so lon- as teachers prcvide students access to varying points or view when they do so * Because the cod of conduc? empowers teachers tL address controversial issues in the classroom, not avoid them, there's incentive for teachers to support it. Public educntioln has a trust problem. Afnunding purpose of public education, still crucial today, is to adequa tely prepare children for thou ghtftl setf government, citzenship, and independent adult life. This end is served by having educators teach students not 'at to think obout c'nnoversial or contested public matters but hew to think such issues through. When educators fail in this essen- tial duty, or when they allow their personal or politi- cal agendas to interfere with the best i terest of students, it erodes public trust in the institution of so oling- Yet today, there is an increasingly con on ten- dency for teachers to use their classrooms as tAt- forms for progressive activism instead of the rigor- ous intellectual inanity for wlich they were intended. Myriad examples of this happening nationwide have come to lig-t, typically via reports fron con-- cerned parent s Giv;en this, it conies as no surprise that anxious parers and otther stakeholders would. seek and. support sorne assurance that teachers are not treating their captive audience of students as a ripe opportunity for political grandstanding and sub- verting their institutional role and power for their ovn ends. The Limitations of Critical Race Theory Bans The most prominent policy response to this loss of trust in schools and. public education ha.s been an attempt to exercise control over political or con- troversial content taught in classrooms through

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