- 'The parents don't even know what's going on because it's all at school,' says a fourth grade teacher in an interview. 'The parents question very little and they just assume the teacher knows what they're doing.'
"...Recently, I spoke with a fourth-grade teacher from the midwest, who shared her experience witnessing the shifting of curriculum shifting from history and science towards overt political indoctrination, all to the detriment of students’ learning.
...Recently, her school district, like many others, switched to an “integrated curriculum.”
...In practice, however, the curriculum all but eradicates history while working to push politics on impressionable children.
As the teacher reports, “It says ‘integrated curriculum,’ and some of its science, and some of its social studies but it really isn’t. It’s more of a push for the progressive movement.”
...The result?
This teacher’s science and history classes were gutted....
- No longer can a teacher do things like math flashcards, because that’s not acceptable. Some principals think that that would belittle the children if they see that they’re not getting their math facts fast.
- We’ve changed a lot of ways that used to work in the past by saying, ‘We can’t identify the kids that are low.’ So they try to pretend that that’s why we need cooperative learning. Just give the answer. Don’t let them say the wrong answer and feel bad about it.
- And then, they come up with this new math, and just say, ‘Getting the wrong answer is good because that helps your brain grow.’ So we’ve got this growth mindset, which is fine but we’re really allowing kids to get wrong answers and not be curious about how do we get to this right.
- The fear of belittling or saddening students is directly keeping them from learning and thriving academically.
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