“What is happening in Alberta?” My Ontario friends often ply me with questions like these, knowing I’ll give them the Coles Notes of my province’s current events. But recently there was really only one thing they were asking about. The provincial government just dropped a draft of our new provincial elementary curriculum and it’s a dumpster fire that man can t (or shouldn t) look away from. Whenever the word curriculum comes up in the news cycle, I get a bit nerdy. This is my jam! I was a high school social studies and English teacher before my second kid was born, and I have a master’s degree in education. But I take no glee in analyzing the chaotic learning outcomes in this draft. To quote Dr. Carla Peck, a University of Alberta education professor specializing in social studies, “the fatal flaw is in the overall design and intent of the curriculum; it cannot be fixed by tweaking it.”