I think this is the crux of the issue. The teacher made the effort to ensure that the kids didn't feel guilty or complicit in the actions of other people just because they shared the same skin colour. She went out of her way to reassure them that they weren’t to blame as individuals. This is the point. If a child feels uncomfortable or guilty because of something that another person of their race did, it's a golden opportunity to teach that child that the colour of their skin doesn't define who they are. To teach them that we aren't bound to each other by our skin colour, we're bound by our common humanity. The very idea of collective racial guilt is racist and supports racist thinking.

There's no way to control what a child will feel about something you say to them or teach them. You could have the purest of intentions and still end up triggering them over some idea they have in their heads that you couldn't possibly have predicted. The issue is, are you making an attempt not to do that? Are you being so negligent in your duty of moulding young minds that you don't think about how your words might promote guilt or anguish? Are you so insensitive that you don't help these young people to contextualise these complex issues and teach them in genuinely age appropriate ways?

The bills simply ratify these kinds of questions into law. I don't care what the topic is. If you can't teach Othello or slavery or the history of the Ku Klux Klan without making a clear distinction between the fact that these people wrongly thought that one race is inherently supperior to another, and that one race is actually superior to another, you have no business whatsoever in a classroom or around young impressionble minds in general.

If your concerns/critiques of woke education don't extend to protecting children from indisputably racist ideas, I honestly have no idea what your critiques can possibly be.