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Community member urges board to support teachers and district ELA curriculum
Summary
During public comment, Miss Thompson, a resident, urged the board to support teachers and the district's ELA curriculum, citing examples from base schools overseas where courses and library content were removed and warning of effects on students' college applications and instruction quality.
Miss Thompson, a resident speaking during the board's public-comment period, urged board members to support the district's teachers and its English language arts curriculum.
“I have a lot of teachers on my caseload and there's a lot of political pressure that they're feeling from the parents against the curriculum under the new administration,” Miss Thompson said. She said she values the curriculum and its depth, adding that while it is “a little difficult to implement because it's so dense,” that density “does a lot to support everything that they teach.”
Miss Thompson said she has been monitoring developments in schools on military bases overseas, where she reported that libraries have been closed and a portrait of Michelle Obama was removed; she said Advanced Placement psychology and biology courses had been stopped in some places, which she said hurt students' college applications. She asked the board: “please please please let's support our teachers. And please let's support our ELA curriculum.”
The board did not respond during the public-comment period; the district's public-comment rules, cited by the presiding officer at the start of the period, limit public-comment time to five minutes and direct comments to the presiding officer so the board can listen and absorb rather than engage in a dialogue during that period. No formal action or vote followed the comment during the meeting.
