Georgia’s K-5 ‘social studies’ curriculum is a trojan horse for Leftism

[SugarDaddy1]

Several months ago, the Educating for American Democracy (EAD) initiative announced $600,000 in grant money to five organizations for K-5 Pilot Projects in civics education. EAD is a national civics advocacy project that has lots of money and prestige. When it went public in 2021, six former U.S. secretaries of education, three of them appointed by Republicans, signed a letter of endorsement in The Wall Street Journal.

One of the recipients of this hefty grant was the Georgia Council for the Social Studies in partnership with the Georgia Center for Civic Engagement and the state Department of Education. The grant, it was said, will help Georgia “better equip our K-5 teaching corps with the pedagogical skills and content knowledge” to send kids to higher grades with “grounding and an inquisitive mindset towards civics and history.”

This is the danger in Georgia. EAD is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Yes, it contains a few traditionalist elements that deflect the charge of anti-conservatism. Overall, however, the EAD Roadmap circumscribes those elements with identity politics that left-wing teachers can plunder all year long. Here is what EAD really means by “inquisitive mindset”: a takedown of heroes, emphasis on victims (women and racial minorities), denial of American exceptionalism, and a focus on the failings of the founding.

These are the dominant themes of the Roadmap, which EAD created as a curricular model for teachers. (For critiques of the Roadmap, see here, here, and here.)

https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/2...ies-curriculum-is-a-trojan-horse-for-leftism/

 

[Chernosoth]

American exceptionalism is the same BS that all dying empires say about themselves. Educators in dying empires need new BS when the old BS doesn't sell anymore.

 

[DeluxAuto]

https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/2...ies-curriculum-is-a-trojan-horse-for-leftism/

Which books are they banning and how many trans kids are being bullied by this?
How many rainbow flags are required to be taken down?

 

[eigenschwarz]

https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/2...ies-curriculum-is-a-trojan-horse-for-leftism/

Dude, you take The Federalist seriously? There hasn't been a serious leftist movement in the US since the Wobblies stopped being relevant.