No Pain; No Education

An old adage says, "No pain; no gain." Learning, however, requires pain. It only happens when students feel the pain that comes from recognizing their ignorance and overcome it by gaining new knowledge and insights.

Across America, Republican lawmakers are working undermine the educational process by making sure there is no pain for them and their supporters and absolutely no gain for anyone else.

Lawmakers want to ban discomfort in school. But Black history isn't always comfortable

Updated February 24, 202212:37 PM ET 

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ANYA STEINBERG

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Learning about Black history isn't always comfortable, neither is learning about The Holocaust or any other topic these self-serving lawmakers wish to exclude from American education by banning this list of 

"uncomfortable" books that would expose their hypocrisy and duplicity.