Parents want to inspect curricula and demand that overworked teachers post every book, video, magazine and website they use online. What do they fear?
The first-grade princess arrived home the other day with a paper she had completed in school. The top of the page said “Be You!” What followed were four lines, each beginning with “Be.” Children filled in the words as they wished.If Mommy had displayed an adjective, it would have been “proud.”, designed to help students feel good about themselves and be kind to others? They argued that “not everyone deserves respect, empathy, honesty, kindness etc. from my children.
As one long-time school board member told me, “The last year and a half have clearly been the most difficult. It is a climate like I have never experienced.”
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