In keeping with the mainstream media coverage of January 6, history teacher (and Communist admirer) James Jessup used class time to assign a reading and assignment on the January 6 violence. Mr. Jessup assigned a Newsela article that introduced the attack with a definition of a mob.
This definition is notably absent from the many articles in Newsela that are supportive of the violent BLM riots of 2020. Both the January 6 attack and the BLM riots were violent and destructive, but Newsela chooses to condemn and label only the January 6 attack as mob violence. Both BLM marches and the January 6 attack are despicable acts of chaos and violence, but this is rarely if ever pointed out by politically motivated teachers.