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29 Dec 2011, 7:00 pm

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Then who would decide what needs to be taught and what shouldn't be?


The educators and experts should decide what is relevant to teach.


Ah, but the problem there is that many areas would have very different ideas on this issue. This, obviously, would create problems and the way to remedy that is to unify and decide together.

Not to mention there are many people within the education system that can't separate this from their politics. Just as many refuse to separate it from their religion.


I agree, this is one case where a heavily scrutinized vote would work.

To put it bluntly, if someone cannot check their politics and more so their religion at the door, they should not be educators.


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29 Dec 2011, 9:02 pm

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To put it bluntly, if someone cannot check their politics and more so their religion at the door, they should not be educators.


Right, but it's impractical to expect them to. This is why legislation like this is passed.


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30 Dec 2011, 4:12 am

Generally, educators determine how to teach, not what. Each state determines curriculum "standards" which we have to address.

You can see California's social studies "standards" here:
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I assume what this means is that they'll add a line about the contributions of gay and lesbian Americans somewhere in this document.