Summer is a great opportunity to shore up a shaky foundation by educating yourself and your children. Prepare yourself to enter the new school year equipped to ask the right questions and speak up.
Who is transmitting actual knowledge?
What’s a parent to do?
ASK QUESTIONS.
What books are the students assigned to read over the summer, and why were they chosen?
What books are faculty reading?
What professional development do teachers and staff complete?
EDUCATE YOURSELF.
Don’t just blindly trust the “experts.” The level of conformity at independent schools is alarming. Schools have an ethical duty not to promote social or political views.
NAIS provides its member schools with some of the lowest quality resources, professional development, and “grifters” we have seen:
Limited to one worldview, often based on the lived experience of a select few
Not grounded in evidence, scholarship, or scientific research
Propaganda that reinforces the social justice agenda the schools are pushing
Most do not stand the test of time, nor would they stand up to real scrutiny
Suggested Reading
by Winkfield Twyman, Jr. & Jennifer Richmond
by E.D. Hirsch Jr.
by Rod Dreher
by Robert Fulghum
By James Fishback, The Free Press
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