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Last year, a slate of conservative candidates, supported by Americans for Prosperity, took over the majority of the Jefferson County School Board. Since then, they've followed the same playbook they used in Douglas County - alienating teachers, cutting pay and benefits, eliminating steps (annual raises based on experience), and eliminated pay increases for advanced degrees. The playbook works well - conservatives across the country have demonized teachers enough that when teachers complain about pay and benefits, they receive little sympathy.
This week, however, the conservative board took it one step too far.
The board established a "curriculum committee" to review what teachers are teaching in the classroom. Each of the five board members (three conservative, two reasonable) nominated three people for the committee. The (conservative) majority then voted on the final nine members - strange then that the members ended up being the conservative nominees!
One of the first orders of business? Review the AP History curriculum.
Julie Williams, one of the conservative board members, said that the purpose of the committee's review was to ensure the curriculum doesn't “encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law,” and instructional materials “present positive aspects of the United States and its heritage.”
I thought this was going to be a story of right wing indoctrination curriculum but instead it's suppression right wing style I guess it's still indoctrinating in a brainwashing, frontal lobotomy sort of way. all their curriculum supports is stifling the voices of the next generation while they continue implementing the hate doctrine,
that last thing "present positive aspects of the united states and it's heritage" do the by chance mean how they built the country on the backs of slaves and immigrants, or how the stole the land from Native Americans or declared slaves 3/5ths of a human so as to deny them the right to vote on up to and including the last 6 years of denial by obstruction, stealing votes through gerrymandering, racist attitude toward the duly elected first Black PRES., denying health care and food stamps and jobs and unemployment extension relief from the recession they created, all things the right wing power structure is proud of.
First of all, notice the dog-whistle language: theory distinguished from fact? Goodbye evolution and climate change; free enterprise system, individual rights? Straight out of the Koch playbook.
It should also be noted that Jeffco already has TWO curriculum committees: one permanent committee, made up of educators and community members, tasked to select materials and a second that convenes when a parent files a complaint about curriculum content.
When it was about teacher pay, district parents didn't care. Now that it's about their kids, parents are taking notice.
I'm from Jeffco and I don't support these changes. What are you so afraid that children will learn? Truth? How to think? Why is it wrong to teach kids about the negative impact of the white man on the native people? It's true. What do you think we should be teaching kids about white/Native American history? Each one of these three new conservative board members needs to be recalled. This new conservative majority has committed multiple abuses and ethical breaches since they were elected. What example do you think that is setting for our children? What civics lessons are they learning from watching the rabid extremists on the Jeffco Board? Those people shouldn't be allowed near children, or kids' minds will be reduced to mindless mush. That is the reason why recall laws exist. These are REAL reasons. Recall them.
next 10 years you see the same if not improved radical ideals and neo hate groups forming remember this article it is a warning of what could come to pass unless we take steps to not only save the country but save the kids from being taken back too to revisit great great great grandparents James and Jane Crow, balls in your court, your court inside the voting booth how you gonna play this ball?
