Twitter post about it: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1344038052507897858
Their website: https://disrupttexts.org/disrupttexts-guides/
All of the books are terrible grifts made to cash in on current idpol trends. You only have to read the synopsis to see how bad they are. It's especially sad since there are many non-white, queer and whatnot authors out there who have written far better literature than these hacks.
This actually happened two years ago, but the change to the curriculum came into effect yesterday.
Two years ago when I was a sophomore in high school, I was assigned a persuasive essay on whatever topic I chose that had to include cited research for my honors English class. I decided it would be fun if I wrote my essay on something I didn't believe to be true and decided on writing about how the Earth was flat.
As many, if not all of you know, there is no short supply of flat-Earth videos so there was plenty of information to use. I ended up using the documentary "Behind The Curve" on netflix as my main source for my "research".
When I had finally finished my essay and turned it it, my teacher said to me in-class "Ausome_Face, I had no idea that you were a flat-Earther." I giggled a little and quietly said "Yeah, I'm not." But the one thing about my teacher is that she is half-deaf from old age, so I don't think she heard me say the "I'm not." part.
Fast-forward to this year and my school has gotten rid of the Earth Science, Intro to Chemistry, and Intro to Physics classes which were all 1-semester long and combined them into a new, all-inclusive class called Freshman Science. I learned from both of my current science teachers and my younger brother, who is a freshman, that they are doing a small segment on why the Earth is not flat. All of them shared how they have to watch the documentary "Behind The Curve" and write about how their "experiments" and results are wrong.
This might all seem like a big coincidence to you right now, but yesterday my younger brother is talking about it to me and just drops "It's your fault we have to do this. Ms. Science teacher told all of us at the beginning of class because kids were complaining they had to watch it. She says it's because you wrote that essay for English and caused her and the school to think you are flat-Earther." That's when I remembered that she was on the school committee that determined what would be taught in classes.
So yeah, my funny essay is the cause of an addition of a new segment of a science class.
TL;DR I wrote a joke essay sophomore year of high school on why the Earth was flat for an English class and caused my school to implement a section on why the Earth is round into the basic, mandatory science curriculum.
EDIT: I want to clarify that I do not think the Earth is flat. Unless I am reading things wrong, it seems as though a few people have the idea that I believe the
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