The leader of the teachers union called the board's decision to exclude a textbook that included info on gay rights activist Harvey Milk a manufactured crisis.
The controversy surrounds the debate over a social studies textbook proposed for the fourth grade curriculum. The textbook includes a one-page supplement about Milk, which reads, in part, "He was the first openly gay man to win in election inDuring a school board meeting last month, Board President Dr. Joseph Komrosky called Milk "a pedophile," shortly before the board voted 3-2 to exclude the book from the curriculum.
"My interest lies with the students," Barclay said. "I'm here to do what's best for students and families, and that is to have a really robust curriculum that's been vetted by our high-quality elementary teachers," adding that she doesn't feel like the board's vote reflects that. Edgar Diaz runs the Temecula Valley Educators Association, the teachers' union. He called the decision misguided and said it leaves teachers without resources.
"We've had four years of big change with COVID learning to teach online, a lot of educators learning how to do education, doing hybrid learning, the following year, when they had students in class and students on the computer, then having students come back into the classrooms and working with the fallout of that," Diaz said. "And now to just manufacture a crisis again is just irresponsible.
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