TARA MCLAIN
Statesman Journal
June 22, 2005
a banning of "cultural competency" training in Oregon schools have been removed from the House budget bill.
Yet for bids the department from spending money on developing cultural dependency standards or programs.
The department and the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission had said earlier that nothing barred them from pursuing the idea on their own after Flores (Rep. Linda Flores chairwoman of the House education committee) stopped a competency bill from progressing in the Legislature.
Under Flores' interpretation, the bill would have required educators to advocate for equity and social justice in order to teach.
She said she doesn't oppose those concepts but doesn't want the government telling teachers what to think.
Supporters of the idea say that their motivation comes nowhere close to that. They see cultural-competency training as a way to better educate teachers about poor and minority students in order to raise their achievement.
maybe because there is confusion on which culture to teach?
1 comment:
No confusion here. They will teach Mexican culture and the religion of peace.
They will be learning the wonderful aspects of Caeser Chavez and Mohammed at the same time.
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