Die Regierung von Alberta sagt, dass ein neuer Gesetzentwurf darauf abzielt, Politik und Ideologie aus den Schulen zu entfernen

> He said when presenting a topic of historic or political significance, teachers must ensure “both sides of the debate are accurately represented” so students can formulate their own opinions.

I didn’t grow up in Alberta so I’m not familiar with the curriculum, but isn’t this how history is already taught? I remember spending a lot of time examining both sides of various debates, like how anglophone Canadians supported conscription for WWI while francophone Canadians opposed it.

> Nicolaides pointed to a January incident where someone surreptitiously recorded a teacher at a Fort Saskatchewan school making disparaging remarks about conservative culture.

While I agree that this crosses a line and the teacher shouldn’t be sharing their personal politics with the class, I doubt the UCP would criticize a teacher in the same way for disparaging the federal Liberals.

I don’t think this is being done in the honest interest of neutrality, I think this is being done as a secretive way to protect right-wing viewpoints while not affording the same protections to left-wing ones in practice.

These bills are more about sending a chilling effect through minority communities, to let them know that they should not feel welcome. It’s a top down effort being lead by Christian nationalists across the country.

Whose politics? Whenever someone says „get politics out of something,“ the person saying it is ***ALWAYS*** a Right Winger because theirs are the politics of consolidating gains they already made. This gives their politics the veneer of invisibility.

Let me guess, „conservative“ „values“ (both political and ideological) and hypercapitalism (ideology, inheritly political) will be seen as the default despite it not being neutral at all, and any deviation from complete devotion to failed capitalist theory will be banned

What about theology? There are a lot of religion based schools. It’s the root of division in those other categories.

Politics shouldn’t be taught before post secondary school, or at least be its own course in high school that looks at all the different types of politics and looks at how democracy started and evolved.

Teach history in history, this can include politics in a historical sense.

But there really shouldn’t be teachers trying to teach what they think the Liberals represent or what the Conservatives represent. That’s not political education, that’s opinion.

My favourite course in high school was ancient civilizations. I would absolutely have taken a politics course that dove deep into how our political system in Canada works. How we vote and how FPTP works, what other options are out there and who uses them. But this isn’t something you can teach in a week or two as part of a broader curriculum.

Then again, I also believe they should have had a life skills mandatory course that taught you how to do basic things like how your taxes work, how to manage a budget over the entire school year, how to not go into massive debt, what jobs there are out there that need people and so on and so forth. Being born in 1984 in Ontario I think I’m part of one of the worst educated generations ever and I hate that.