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Not content with lobotomizing health care, they are coming for your kids next.

How bad is the social studies curriculum the United Conservative Party wants to start piloting?

We all know it’s bad. But I mean, seriously, how bad is it really?

Last Friday, the expert panel asked by the province to weigh in on the UCP Government’s new kindergarten to Grade 6 social studies curriculum published an open letter to Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides unanimously urging him pull the plug on it and start over again.

The eight post-secondary educators and curriculum specialists outlined their “significant concerns” with the plan to start piloting the controversial curriculum.

The new curriculum, he said, is “devoid of any sense of the overall goals to be systematically pursued and reflected in a person who graduates after 13 years of social studies instruction.”

The old curriculum, he explained, tried to develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions in young people that would let them become “active and engaged citizens of a democratic society.” And this, he added, “was to be worked at increasingly through the grades.”

Now? “It looks like our students will be rigidly focused on the knowledge of the past that they have accumulated. No systematic development of the skills and attributes needed for making complex decisions in public affairs, no development of discerning judgement, no sense of agency or the disposition to be engaged and involved in public affairs.”

No surprise, either, given the UCP’s American-influenced MAGA ideology and hostility to critical thinking – especially if it results in criticism of them!

This, Mr. Booi suggested, looks like “a curriculum designed for home schooling.”

https://albertapolitics.ca/2024/03/a...ome-schooling/

So ya, ignoring experts again. The en####ification of Alberta continues.