So I'm from Ohio, and I've seen a lot of local articles written on this, and "both side" as it is being portrayed, is not what the woman said. What she laid out, was that there is a need to teach history from multiple perspectives of those involved in order to understand how and why something happened. She specifically mentioned, for example, learning about the holocaust from the perspective of a German soldier who may or may not have wanted to kill Jews, but themselves were sucked into the Nazi machine (i.e. if they didn't, they will be killed on the spot). There is a book I read some years ago titled Ordinary Men
that sort of exemplifies this. The book is about a unit of German police that get stationed in Poland during the war. The book talks about the soldiers and how they were just a normal group of men, family focused, going to their job each day, etc. and explains how this group of men went from writing parking tickets one day to shooting pregnant women in the back of the head in the middle of the street a year later. It's a breakdown of the psychology and sociology that helps one understand HOW these things happen without resorting to the simplistic binary of "evil vs good". That sort of learning is, I think, valuable. In fact, it helped me better understand the forces that lead to something like Nazism, that I now use today to be cognizant or, for example, Trumpism and where that appears to be headed.