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Terri Sewell: “To assume our students cannot handle this information is truly an insult to their intelligence and ours.”

On the recordJuly 18, 2023
To assume our students cannot handle this information is truly an insult to their intelligence and ours.
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Terri Sewell
Democratic · Alabama

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Sewell argues that students are capable of understanding diversity and history.

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