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Teachers tell Wiseburn board social studies materials and minutes are insufficient
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Two Holly Glen kindergarten teachers told the Wiseburn Unified School District board on Oct. 9 that the district's social studies curriculum is outdated, that many kindergarten classrooms lack materials, and that schedules leave teachers only about 30 minutes a week for social studies instruction.
Two Holly Glen kindergarten teachers urged the Wiseburn Unified School District board on Oct. 9 to adopt a new social studies curriculum and give teachers scheduled instructional time to teach it.
"Our curriculum is no longer relevant today," said Maria Rodriguez, a Holly Glen kindergarten teacher, describing the district's last full social studies adoption as occurring in about 2007. Rodriguez told the board that teachers lack class sets of social studies materials; she said a veteran teacher at her site had only 17 textbooks and has never had a full…
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