On Tuesday, Hundreds of students in Colorado’s Jefferson County school district protested a recent proposal from a conservative school board majority to concentrate history education on subjects that advance citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, The Associated Press reports.

“I don’t think my education should be censored. We should be able to know what happened in our past,” 17-year-old Tori Leu, a student at Ralston Valley High School, told The AP.

The Jefferson County school district has been a hotbed of controversy and conflict this year. According to The New York Times, teachers held a “sick-out” on Friday, which closed two schools in the school district.

The newspaper adds that a debate over the controversial curriculum-review committee won’t be held until October and that school board president Ken Witt has said that some of the inflammatory language in the proposal may be eliminated.

“A lot of those words were more specific and more pointed than they have to be,” Witt told The New York Times.

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