Posted on 08/26/2024 1:39:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Chandler public schools are asking parents to sign off on teaching their kids things like "integers" and "geometric figures."
Is it OK if your child is taught the probability of a coin flip landing on heads? What about who crossed the Delaware River during the American Revolution? Or how to order breakfast in Spanish? Before it shares such controversial knowledge, the Chandler Unified School District wants to make sure.
That’s according to forms sent to parents of Chandler public school students, which were shared on social media Wednesday by Save Our Schools Executive Director Beth Lewis. Parents are asked to sign off on the subjects their kids will be taught this school year, and critical race theory is nowhere on the list. Instead, the schools are seeking approval to teach things such as basic math and social studies.
“It’s unreal for a district to have to do that,” Lewis told Phoenix New Times.
Lewis has two kids in Chandler schools, which serves 44,000 students throughout parts of Chandler, Gilbert and Queen Creek. She first learned of the forms this week when her middle school-aged daughter brought one home for her to sign. Lewis was asked to “acknowledge” approval for 11 study units in math — including integers, rational numbers and probability.
Half an hour after she filled out that slip, her seventh-grade son reached into his backpack and pulled out two more for his Spanish and social studies classes. Lewis said the first form requested parental permission for students to “learn breakfast and lunch words in Spanish,” among other things. For social studies, parents were asked to approve topics such as the Enlightenment, industrialization and revolutions.
If a parent checks that they have a “parental conflict” on a certain topic, the form states that “the teacher will reach out regarding options,”
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I’ll check when I get on my other computer.
That list rarely gets pinged out so that is why you haven’t gotten anything in a while if you are on.
My experience in jr high was one that I would never want to inflict on anyone.
I HATED it, and when homeschooling took off just as my kids were entering school age, we decided to give it a try and I decided then that at the very least, I would homeschool them right through JR high.
Going back to the olden days of WHY JOHNNY CAN’T READ.(1955)
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