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Show up in our school district every single day. students who desire to see themselves reflected in the curriculum. >> a curriculum that includes lessons about slavery, but also about a black astronaut and the african-american inventor of the traffic signal. >> for children of school ages, those are conversations that can be had at a later date, as opposed to trying to propagandize children in kindergarten, elementary, and things of that nature. >> the district and proponents say they're not propagandizing, they're teaching, asking them to think, not telling them to think. >> i understand, but...

They're white shaming us. >> no. so, in our district, we're not white shaming. we are not making anyone feel bad about being white. or calling anyone racist. that's not what this is about. we have diverse students in the rockwood school district, that show up in our school district every single day. students who desire to see themselves reflected in the curriculum. >> reporter: a curriculum that includes lessons about slavery. but also, about a black astronaut and the african-american inventor of the traffic signal. >> for children of school ages, those are conversations that could be had at a...

They are making us feel guilty. they are white shaming us. >> no, in our district, we're not white shaming. we are not making anyone feel bad about being white. or calling anyone racist. that's not what this is about. we have diverse students in the rockwood school district that show up in our school district every single day. students, who desire to see themselves reflected in the curriculum. >> reporter: a curriculum that includes lessons about slavery. but also, about a black astronaut and the african-american inventor of the traffic signal. >> for children of school ages, those are convers...

White shaming, not anyone feel bad about being white or calling anyone a racist. we have diverse students in the rockwood school district that show up every single day, students who desire to see themselves reflected in the curriculum. >> reporter: that includes lessons about slavery, but also about a black astronaut, and the african-american invector of the traffic signal. >> for children of school ages those are conversations that can be had at a later dade. >> a district and proponents of this are saying they're not propagandizing, just teaching, just asking them to think, not telling them ...