It would probably be even better if you assigned any upper class students to the bottom rung and assigned the lower class to the upper. Might be eye-opening.
My go to illustration for the problem of these divisive concept law is that here in GA the law says you can’t teach that the US is structurally racist. 8th grade standards require the teaching of the Dred Scott decision. As I have discussed it locally most of the time I ask people about how they would teach Dred Scott and almost universally supporters of the law do not understand what the decision was.
The same law says that teachers can’t be forced to do teacher training on DEI subjects. But our district has 80% white teachers and 39% white students.
And last night our local school board removed the word equitable from the board policy on school funding. So the official school board policy no longer says that there is a goal to fund all schools equitably.
Teachers certification goals also no longer have a goal of teachers teaching all students equitably.
I really do not think people are trying to be inequitably in teaching or funding. And when I have talked to people about whether all of history should be taught, they think that it should be.
But the removal of the goals is a problem because if it isn’t a goal, it isn’t going to be evaluated.
Years ago in when I was in chicago the parks department said that it had a goal of equitably funding parks around the city. But they had opaque reports and it was hard to analyze. Someone got a grant and put in a ton of time to evaluate and what most people knew was true. It was very inequitable.
Mt current school board is going to be changed in the not too distant future. The board maps have been thrown out. The new maps will be updated eventually. The board will flip control. But not every place will change.
I love the idea!
It would probably be even better if you assigned any upper class students to the bottom rung and assigned the lower class to the upper. Might be eye-opening.
James
My go to illustration for the problem of these divisive concept law is that here in GA the law says you can’t teach that the US is structurally racist. 8th grade standards require the teaching of the Dred Scott decision. As I have discussed it locally most of the time I ask people about how they would teach Dred Scott and almost universally supporters of the law do not understand what the decision was.
The same law says that teachers can’t be forced to do teacher training on DEI subjects. But our district has 80% white teachers and 39% white students.
And last night our local school board removed the word equitable from the board policy on school funding. So the official school board policy no longer says that there is a goal to fund all schools equitably.
Teachers certification goals also no longer have a goal of teachers teaching all students equitably.
I really do not think people are trying to be inequitably in teaching or funding. And when I have talked to people about whether all of history should be taught, they think that it should be.
But the removal of the goals is a problem because if it isn’t a goal, it isn’t going to be evaluated.
Years ago in when I was in chicago the parks department said that it had a goal of equitably funding parks around the city. But they had opaque reports and it was hard to analyze. Someone got a grant and put in a ton of time to evaluate and what most people knew was true. It was very inequitable.
Mt current school board is going to be changed in the not too distant future. The board maps have been thrown out. The new maps will be updated eventually. The board will flip control. But not every place will change.