The exam board AQA apologises and says the textbook should never have been approved.

An A-level history textbook has been withdrawn after a youth worker said she was "horrified" to discover an image asking whether the treatment of Native Americans had been exaggerated.

The AQA-approved book asked students to balance "criticisms of treatment of Native Americans" with "defence" of their treatment in the late 1800s.

:what-the-hell:

  • Caocao [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    "It was deeply shocking to see how ingrained racial injustice is," she told the BBC.

    Whether or not the US government's actions amounted to a genocide, it imposed policies that targeted Native American land, freedom, and wellbeing.

    Fucking lol