You could take textbooks from the 50s through early 70s and have a very good base to teach from for many (most?) subjects. Reading, writing, and arithmetic haven’t changed at all. How long has chemistry and calculus been with us? (I have an extensive math background, but I wouldn’t want to learn from the disorganized crap in today’s math textbooks).
What about the structure and functions of government, i.e. showing how bills are passed, discussing the three branches, etc.? Even history—it’s unwise, I think, to discuss “history” that’s less than 30 years old. I think there needs to be some separation there for emotions to die down.
The modern “focus” on diversity and multiculturalism? Ha! Diverse cultures didn’t create this country with its (still) amazing riches, freedoms, and highest standard of living anywhere. So let’s celebrate a bunch of primitives, eh? What a joke!
Get back to the basics.
My ninth graders used to mke fun that I didn’t know world war craft or so, so proud of their knowledge of how to use computers etc.
I’d say, charitably and with some humor and a litlle respect, ah, I knes guys, like my dad and his military academy peers who invented computers and devised the ways to get them into households and they were learning this stuff I’m trying to teach you while they were in high school. Knowing how to use it, bah, try inventing it.
Get back to work!
They’d bury thier heads and come back dishing the dirt on Cassius and Huck Finn.
These kids, they might not like it, who does, but they are hungry for the truth and they know itwhen they see it. THey love a challenge. They love the competition.
They know they need it.
They love survival skills weaons fire cooking all tat stuff.
I do not like to underestimate them.