Wisconsin Law Would Force Public Schools to Teach Labor History

The AP reports:

The three Rs would be joined by mandatory instruction on collective bargaining and the history of unions in America under a proposal introduced in the Wisconsin Legislature.

Labor unions are all for it. School groups aren't.

The bill, by Democratic state Senator Dave Hansen of Green Bay, would require every school board to incorporate the history of organized labor and the collective bargaining process into its curriculum.

David Nack of the Wisconsin Labor History Society says a law is needed because current teaching on the subject isn't sufficient.

Wisconsin Education Association Council president Mary Bell says the struggles of working men and women often get left out by teachers trying to cram in other required material. She says the state teachers' union supports the bill because it would force schools to teach that history.

But Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators executive director Miles Turner says that group trusts local educators and school boards to make curriculum decisions rather than the state Legislature.

You might say certain groups want to force their agenda on the captive public schools.No word yet on whether the "labor history" will include Ed Hanley , brother in law of Frank Calabrese Sr..