https://hechingerreport.org/who-picks-school-curriculum-idaho-law-hands-more-power-to-parents/ Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:13:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://hechingerreport.org/who-picks-school-curriculum-idaho-law-hands-more-power-to-parents/comment-page-1/#comment-54061 Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:13:03 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=94687#comment-54061 As an educator, I am glad that I no longer live in Idaho. Most parents don’t have subject background or state mandate knowledge. As a math teacher, I can see a scenario where parents want a math curriculum from the past, that was good enough for them, when they grew up. I can see many communities, especially small and/or rural communities having curriculum committees in which the nonteacher members are people who have far right political beliefs, like the Freedom Foundation, who fight a curriculum that has anything that is contrary to their political beliefs, like climate change or diversity. Such a group gained control of the Board of Trustees, for North Idaho College. When they imposed their extremist political views, the college almost lost its accreditation.

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