Post: ‘Workers’ or slaves? Textbook maker backtracks after mother’s online complaint

by Yanan Wang

Mothers of teenagers are used to getting frustrating text messages, but the one that Roni Dean-Burren received from her 15-year-old son last week wasn’t about alcohol, dating or money for the movies.

It was about history.

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