Curriculum a notch on the bedpost of UCP failure
By Letter to the Editor on April 23, 2021.
Editor:
MLA Lagrange has almost half a page in the Lethbridge Herald touting the merits of her curriculum.
Apparently she will pay attention to the suggestions the teachers and community offer during the piloting of said curriculum.
Of course that won’t happen.
Minister Lagrange is a dutiful UCP. This curriculum was constructed without a curriculum specialist, with no subject specialists and with no input from Alberta teachers, who were only invited (selected) at the 11th hour to polish the document.
We citizens understand fully the meaning of ‘public consultation’ to the UCP government. It means: Present the public with a fait-accompli and disregard public interest, opinion and outrage.
This curriculum, the open pit mining, the doctors, nurses, health care workers, the police, Covid action and vaccine administration are notches on the UCP bedpost of failures.
Kathryn MacIsaac
Lethbridge
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More nonsense. “Teachers were only invited at the eleventh hour.” Districts were asked to solicit volunteers for the draft process, volunteers were nominated and then selected by their peers”. It was so important, some districts do NOT have anyone come forward to be on the panel. But I’m sure we’ll hear from them about how useless the UCP is.
Constructed without a curriculum specialist, debunked. Advisory panel consist of these “non-specialists”.
https://www.alberta.ca/curriculum-development.aspx
No consultation with teachers debunked. People on this list is are teacher’s and members of the ATA.
https://www.alberta.ca/assets/documents/edc-curriculum-working-group-members-kto6-2020.pdf
And last but not least here is the curriculum. WHICH IS A DRAFT. To say the government won’t listen is your opinion and a lack of understanding of what a draft is. To say the government won’t listen is to give up,
https://www.alberta.ca/curriculum.aspx
We want our kids to know how to think, not what you want them to think.
Buckwheat said, “We want our kids to know how to think, not what you want them to think”.
YAY! Someone else gets it.
The irony of it all is that both sides don’t even realize that ANY “curriculum” is actually veiled ideology that teaches kids what to think, not how to think.
Sheesh. This isn’t that hard to understand, yet here we are.
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