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Jul 6, 2021, 9 tweets

Here are 29 pages promulgated by the state of Oregon laying out standards for "social sciences integrated with ethnic studies." Whether you like it or not, states already have granular requirements for education. oregon.gov/ode/educator-r…

Here's one of the standards for kindergarten:

For first grade:

For second grade:

Here are some high school standards:

More high school:

And one more high school:

The point here is not whether or not they are good standards. It's that they are granular, non-neutral standards. They enshrine a certain intellectual approach.

So to say that it's "un-American" for some people to want to have different standards misses how US public education currently works (policymakers are already imposing standards, some with significant ideological weight).

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