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Parents and teachers urge board to reconsider Bluebonnet curriculum, cite age appropriateness and lack of teacher input
Summary
Multiple parents and Conroe ISD teachers told the school board the district rushed adoption of the Bluebonnet Learning curriculum without sufficient teacher review and raised concerns about reading level, religious content and implementation costs.
Dozens of parents and teachers urged the Conroe Independent School District Board of Trustees on March 18 to reconsider the district’s recent adoption of the Bluebonnet Learning English language arts curriculum, saying teachers were not given adequate opportunity to review materials and that some content is not age-appropriate.
The speakers’ concerns centered on three themes: insufficient teacher review before the board’s vote, reading passages and prompts they said are above grade level, and alleged religious content in selected texts.
Christina Smith, who identified herself as “a mom to four Conroe ISD special students who receive special education instruction,” said the Bluebonnet lessons offer too little small-group instruction for students with dyslexia and that “small group instruction has been crucial to my children’s success.” She added, “I can’t sit silently back and let my children’s education be an unproven…
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