kelly speech-side-l-1 Black Curriculum of Communism speech-side-l-2

  • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    I wonder how any teacher could get around those standards. Perhaps by doing the bare minimum? Maybe it'll be as drab and forgettable as 12th grade government/economics. I mean they already serve an anti communist unction in a way, along with teaching Eric Blair in freshman English.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
      ·
      6 months ago

      It would depend on specifics of the bill and the school boards. Most teachers I imagine are libs and so would be fine teaching Orwell if not the Black Book.

      Having teachers be hostile to a curriculum means that you wind up with school board members showing up to read off a paper for 45 minutes.

      Some teachers are pretty cool, but teaching leaves little time/energy for self education outside of their subjects, so they wind up being a time capsule of popular approachable radical opinions just before they started teaching full time.

      • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        I can see that. With all these conservative activist parents with nothing better to do, it makes me happy I did not become a teacher. Still, I always wonder how my high school social studies teacher fares through all this. He's a Bernie-sympathetic former Republican but, his education gave him a bit of an anti imperialist streak.