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Community speakers urge care and contest inclusion of 'comfort women' history after SFUSD withdrawal
Summary
Superintendent Carranza withdrew a resolution to add the history of "comfort women" to state curriculum; many members of the public then delivered extended, often conflicting testimony urging the board either to investigate the history further or to refrain from including contested material in textbooks.
Superintendent Carranza opened the meeting by announcing that the board’s resolution supporting inclusion of the history of “comfort women” in statewide curriculum was withdrawn from tonight’s agenda and will be considered at a future meeting. In the absence of formal consideration, dozens of public commenters used the public-comment period to press the board on whether and how the topic should be taught.
Speakers from multiple community groups and individuals urged caution and called for balanced, fact-based classroom materials. Several…
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