Problem
Ethical Dilemma Scenario
You are a 10th grade history teacher preparing to teach a unit on the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Traditionally, your primary source for this unit is your history textbook, which includes passages of the legislation and narrative by the book's authors, both white men. This year, in light of nation-wide conversations around racial justice and the erasure of non-white narratives, you want to also incorporate articles authored by African American historians as well as primary source documents such as video clips of demonstrations and letters from white citizens concerned about passage of the legislation to their congressmen. Your principal recommends against this, stating that there have been complaints from parents in previous years around the introduction of non-textbook resources as being unfairly biased, and reminding you that there is a unit later on in the year focused specifically around critical interpretation of historical documents. Given the principal's concerns and the potential for parent pushback, how would you proceed?