As a public school teacher I served on a district committee to choose or replace textbooks. Sat through many sales meetings from companies whose actual knowledge and textbook writing seemed a manipulation, distortion, or selective weak construction of questionable purpose or direction of our country's education. And that's the pile from …
As a public school teacher I served on a district committee to choose or replace textbooks. Sat through many sales meetings from companies whose actual knowledge and textbook writing seemed a manipulation, distortion, or selective weak construction of questionable purpose or direction of our country's education. And that's the pile from which we could choose. This was decades before the political and national mess in which our country now finds itself. We're in trouble, folks. Maybe we have been... for a very long time.
Our elder child (adult) created quite the dust up when she was in kindergarten. She was a prodigy so keeping up with her was challenging. We taught her the truth. No dumbing down and no skirting issues. So, when Columbus Day rolled around, we received a call from her kindergarten teacher. She asked if what S said was true. It was. The teacher had been fed all the lies and none of the truth. S told her what Columbus and his men did. I was so proud of her. 😉
In that same district, my late father was THE (best, most knowledgeable) U.S.- World - Russian -European history and government teacher for over thirty years. He didn't need a textbook. From his extensive reading he WAS the textbook and taught every class at an A.P. level. He passed away in 2013, but I'm sure his analysis of how things have evolved would have been enlightening....
As a public school teacher I served on a district committee to choose or replace textbooks. Sat through many sales meetings from companies whose actual knowledge and textbook writing seemed a manipulation, distortion, or selective weak construction of questionable purpose or direction of our country's education. And that's the pile from which we could choose. This was decades before the political and national mess in which our country now finds itself. We're in trouble, folks. Maybe we have been... for a very long time.
Our elder child (adult) created quite the dust up when she was in kindergarten. She was a prodigy so keeping up with her was challenging. We taught her the truth. No dumbing down and no skirting issues. So, when Columbus Day rolled around, we received a call from her kindergarten teacher. She asked if what S said was true. It was. The teacher had been fed all the lies and none of the truth. S told her what Columbus and his men did. I was so proud of her. 😉
Dropping Civics classes from high school curriculum was one of the dumbest moves ever.
In that same district, my late father was THE (best, most knowledgeable) U.S.- World - Russian -European history and government teacher for over thirty years. He didn't need a textbook. From his extensive reading he WAS the textbook and taught every class at an A.P. level. He passed away in 2013, but I'm sure his analysis of how things have evolved would have been enlightening....
Oh, I’m sure he’d have some things to say! 😂