CCSD Should Teach ..

Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum

We need to emphasize more study of ..

Here we go again! Public education is a *political* institution.

• Conservatives want it to teach abstinence
• Liberals want it to teach sex ed
• Bankers want it to teaching checkbook skills
• Puritans want it to teach about the Pilgrams
• Federalists want it to teach about the Founding Fathers
• Southern Aristocrats want it to teach about the Confederacy
• Jews want it to teach about the Holocaust
• Christians want it to teach Creation "Science"
• left wingers want it to teach about the man-made climate catastrophe
• right wingers want it to teach about the man-made jihadist catastrophe
• and on and on and on

The constituency for the 3R's fled to the private schools long ago.

Hey "should teach" busybodies. I recently reviewed some State of CA approved reading/history materials (~3rd grade). A section entitled "Inventors". Thomas Edison was almost *incidental*. He merited equal mention to one Pedro Flores!

What did he invent? The taco shell?

Give the government the power to do something and they'll abuse it every time. CCSD has a constitutional mission to teach the 3R's to poor kids. Let me know when it figures out how to do that. In the mean time don't ask them to teach anything else.