The idea to implement Holocaust Education Week was considered in a Missouri Senate committee Wednesday. The proposed legislation would provide “age-appropriate Holocaust education” to students in sixth grade through high school to help them quote “recognize and uphold the human value and to prevent future atrocities.”Bill sponsor Representative Adam Schwadron, a Republican from St. Charles, said the legislation also provides support for educators.
The Missouri House bill currently has 45 bipartisan co-sponsors. It’s advancing in the same legislative session where lawmakers put forth numerous bills to curtail the teaching of what they perceive to be critical race theory. Critics have said those bills would silence teachers’ instructions on another historic wrong, American slavery.