Some Schools Don’t Want You to Know What They Are Teaching Your Kids. That’s a Problem.
9th September 2020
Six months into the pandemic, some traditions will still not be upset by a virus. As approximately half of K-12 schools are only offering online instruction, parents will still know little, if anything, of what their children are being taught in school except by accident—or unless they ask.
Recent fallout from such asymmetric information comes from Wylie, Texas, where a cartoon associating police with the KKK went from classroom to living room to the press room and on to the governor.
At Cooper Junior High, eighth-grade students were assigned to write about a political cartoon that depicts slave owners, then KKK members, and then police in corresponding panels. Furious parents, who only learned of the assignment because their children told them, contacted the school and wrote angry statements on social media.
Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott said the teacher responsible for the assignment should be fired.
The solution is to avoid sending your kids to a government school.