"Hundreds of Jefferson County Schools students, teachers, and parents demonstrated before Thursday's board meeting in Golden."
"Two students from Standley Lake High presented the board with boxes filled with 40,000 signatures gathered online from people opposed to the curriculum committee concept."
"While the controversial section about patriotism and civil disorder had been stripped out of the proposal that went before the board Thursday, it didn't stop dozens of people from blasting the board for the idea..." (see Jesse Paul, Denver Post, www.denverpost.com, 10.3.14).
"Michelle Patterson, head of the Jefferson County PTA, told the board that 'civil protest is one of the highest forms of patriotism.' She said she has heard from many PTA members over the last few weeks objecting to the curriculum committee idea. 'If the teachers and students don't move you, do 13,000 angry parents get your attention?' she said."
The upshot was that the controversial proposal to sanitize AP US History was stripped from the board's discussion, and the board voted to include more teacher, student and community voices in the curriculum review process. A slight victory, certainly. I wonder what Colorado parents, teachers and students could accomplish if they set their teeth into the 11 days lost to testing this year?
No comments:
Post a Comment