New Virginia social studies standards

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that the critics have chosen to frame it as "MLK isn't being taught in K-5" when it is part of the 6th grade curriculum and elementary schools in NoVA, at least, are K-6. Also, the MLK holiday is part of the curriculum in earlier grades and how exactly does one teach about the MLK holiday without teaching who MLK was and what he did?

It's all hyperventilation and partisanship.

Tell me you haven't read the proposed changes without telling me you haven't read the proposed changes.

DP. Some elementary schools are K-5 and some are K-6 in Nova. In the new standards, MLK is in 6th grade as part of US history.

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that the critics have chosen to frame it as "MLK isn't being taught in K-5" when it is part of the 6th grade curriculum and elementary schools in NoVA, at least, are K-6. Also, the MLK holiday is part of the curriculum in earlier grades and how exactly does one teach about the MLK holiday without teaching who MLK was and what he did?

It's all hyperventilation and partisanship.

Huh? They are K-5.

k-6 in most of FCPS

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Anonymous wrote:Native Americans (currently grade 2) and Ancient China (currently grade 3) completely removed from elementary school.

Kind of scary.

American Indians are in K, 4th and 5th grade in these revised standards.

There's also no Mali.

I'm not super woke but the way they taught native Americans was so disturbing to me I'd prefer they not teach it at all. The stuff I heard during zoom school led to a lot of dinner table conversations!

NP. And yet, they did still immigrate. No humans evolved in the Americas.
You are an idiot
How in the world can the US not teach about Native Americans

Virginia you failed by electing YOUNGKIN the guy who doesn't think VA schools are good for his own kids!

I'm not an idiot. My kids were learning things like "the Indians were not as civilized as the people who came from England, so the people who came from England helped them and the Indians were grateful." This was two years ago so I am hazy on the specifics but it was about that offensive. Wouldn't you rather have your kids learn nothing than learn that?

I remember when one of mine brought home worksheets describing Pocahontas as a “princess” and glorifying John Smith. They are still teaching the Disney version of Native American history. It’s wrong but I wouldn’t count on Youngkin to fix it.

I have a 4th grader who came home last week and told us "the real story of Pocahontas is completely different from Disney. Did you X, Y, Z?" and I did not, in fact, know X, Y, and Z - so perhaps something has changed since you had a 4th grader. How old are your kids? 25?

Well that's going to change in the new standards when they won't reach about Native Americans and are calling natives immigrants.

Yes, somehow American Indians are not immigrants but the rest of us should go back to where we came from...

They were here first.

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that the critics have chosen to frame it as "MLK isn't being taught in K-5" when it is part of the 6th grade curriculum and elementary schools in NoVA, at least, are K-6. Also, the MLK holiday is part of the curriculum in earlier grades and how exactly does one teach about the MLK holiday without teaching who MLK was and what he did?

It's all hyperventilation and partisanship.

Tell me you haven't read the proposed changes without telling me you haven't read the proposed changes.

I have. If you want to correct me, have at it.

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Several speakers expressed outrage over kindergarten standards that described Indigenous people as America’s first “immigrants” from Asia.

“This is our home. We are not immigrants,” said Aaron Winston, a board member for the Virginia Tribal Education Consortium. “No one is trying to say the English didn’t come from England or the Chinese didn’t come from China. Why are you telling us that now we come from somewhere else?”

Superintendent Balow later apologized in an interview.

“It was wrong to label them as immigrants in the standards document and we will make sure that is corrected,” Balow said.

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Proposal was voted down. Things did not add up and they knew it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that the critics have chosen to frame it as "MLK isn't being taught in K-5" when it is part of the 6th grade curriculum and elementary schools in NoVA, at least, are K-6. Also, the MLK holiday is part of the curriculum in earlier grades and how exactly does one teach about the MLK holiday without teaching who MLK was and what he did?

It's all hyperventilation and partisanship.

Huh? They are K-5.

Some in Fairfax have 6th grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Several speakers expressed outrage over kindergarten standards that described Indigenous people as America’s first “immigrants” from Asia.

“This is our home. We are not immigrants,” said Aaron Winston, a board member for the Virginia Tribal Education Consortium. “No one is trying to say the English didn’t come from England or the Chinese didn’t come from China. Why are you telling us that now we come from somewhere else?”

Superintendent Balow later apologized in an interview.

“It was wrong to label them as immigrants in the standards document and we will make sure that is corrected,” Balow said.

Are they saying they didn't come from Asia over a land bridge?
There is a case that Vikings might have arrived first.

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Anonymous wrote:Proposal was voted down. Things did not add up and they knew it.

The super woke Northam standards are dead too thankfully. If you want your child to learn how to be a social justice activist, you'll have to do it on your own time instead of shoving it down our kids' throats in social studies.

Keep dreaming. Take a look at the novels being assigned in school. George Takei's book about internment, one of the questions is why does he feel differently taking the FDR bridge/parkway to Manhattan?

Do you have an issue with that?

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that the critics have chosen to frame it as "MLK isn't being taught in K-5" when it is part of the 6th grade curriculum and elementary schools in NoVA, at least, are K-6. Also, the MLK holiday is part of the curriculum in earlier grades and how exactly does one teach about the MLK holiday without teaching who MLK was and what he did?

It's all hyperventilation and partisanship.

Huh? They are K-5.

Some in Fairfax have 6th grade.

That’s not standard for northern Virginia.

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Anonymous wrote:Several speakers expressed outrage over kindergarten standards that described Indigenous people as America’s first “immigrants” from Asia.

“This is our home. We are not immigrants,” said Aaron Winston, a board member for the Virginia Tribal Education Consortium. “No one is trying to say the English didn’t come from England or the Chinese didn’t come from China. Why are you telling us that now we come from somewhere else?”

Superintendent Balow later apologized in an interview.

“It was wrong to label them as immigrants in the standards document and we will make sure that is corrected,” Balow said.

Are they saying they didn't come from Asia over a land bridge?
There is a case that Vikings might have arrived first.

Their ancestors migrated here 30,000 years ago.

They’re indigenous.

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that the critics have chosen to frame it as "MLK isn't being taught in K-5" when it is part of the 6th grade curriculum and elementary schools in NoVA, at least, are K-6. Also, the MLK holiday is part of the curriculum in earlier grades and how exactly does one teach about the MLK holiday without teaching who MLK was and what he did?

It's all hyperventilation and partisanship.

Tell me you haven't read the proposed changes without telling me you haven't read the proposed changes.

DP. Some elementary schools are K-5 and some are K-6 in Nova. In the new standards, MLK is in 6th grade as part of US history.

You think MLK was the only change?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that the critics have chosen to frame it as "MLK isn't being taught in K-5" when it is part of the 6th grade curriculum and elementary schools in NoVA, at least, are K-6. Also, the MLK holiday is part of the curriculum in earlier grades and how exactly does one teach about the MLK holiday without teaching who MLK was and what he did?

It's all hyperventilation and partisanship.

Huh? They are K-5.

Some are, some aren't. Fairfax Co is K-6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Several speakers expressed outrage over kindergarten standards that described Indigenous people as America’s first “immigrants” from Asia.

“This is our home. We are not immigrants,” said Aaron Winston, a board member for the Virginia Tribal Education Consortium. “No one is trying to say the English didn’t come from England or the Chinese didn’t come from China. Why are you telling us that now we come from somewhere else?”

Superintendent Balow later apologized in an interview.

“It was wrong to label them as immigrants in the standards document and we will make sure that is corrected,” Balow said.

Are they saying they didn't come from Asia over a land bridge?
There is a case that Vikings might have arrived first.

Their ancestors migrated here 30,000 years ago.

They’re indigenous.

I haven't read the curriculum, are the talking about the first American as immigrants in terms of early human migration patterns (which I would support) or as a way to equate their claim to being a native to any other American's claim on the term (which would be pretty awful)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Several speakers expressed outrage over kindergarten standards that described Indigenous people as America’s first “immigrants” from Asia.

“This is our home. We are not immigrants,” said Aaron Winston, a board member for the Virginia Tribal Education Consortium. “No one is trying to say the English didn’t come from England or the Chinese didn’t come from China. Why are you telling us that now we come from somewhere else?”

Superintendent Balow later apologized in an interview.

“It was wrong to label them as immigrants in the standards document and we will make sure that is corrected,” Balow said.

Are they saying they didn't come from Asia over a land bridge?
There is a case that Vikings might have arrived first.

Their ancestors migrated here 30,000 years ago.

They’re indigenous.

I haven't read the curriculum, are the talking about the first American as immigrants in terms of early human migration patterns (which I would support) or as a way to equate their claim to being a native to any other American's claim on the term (which would be pretty awful)

The inaccurate use of the politically-loaded word "immigrant" is "othering" indigenous people.

That's not the terminology for migrations that happened 30,000 years ago.