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The new UCP curriculum has been marred with controversy this past week.
Education Minister Adriana LaGrange unveiled plans for a new draft curriculum for K-6 students, which would see an increased focus on financial literacy, sexual consent and European history, including expectations around memorizing lists of facts, dates, and names.
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Teachers in select classrooms will start teaching some of that curriculum as soon as September, but the majority were not part of designing it.
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You could chalk it up to frustration.
Protestors gathered once again outside of the constituency offices of both local MLAs on Chippewa Road on Wednesday, March 31. This time local residents were spurred to speak out against the province following the release of the K-6 draft curriculum last week.
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Chalk messages left along the sidewalk read; “Repulsive, regressive, and racist – the new 3 R’s at school”, “21st century learners deserve 21st century curriculum”, “Is this curriculum an April Fool’s joke?”, “Stand up for the kids Jordan!”, “You know plagiarism gets you kicked out of school, right?”, “So are our new American textbooks available in French?”, “Surprise! Teachers are the curriculum experts”, and “The rewrite is an embarrassment” and that’s only to name a few.