What is humanity?
Starting with that question might be the first step to better
integrating the controversial curriculum that is emerging in our world. However, defining humanity as one thing, and
one thing only, is something we must be careful of as well as the hidden
curriculums (like church, politics, etc.) that might diminish the humanity of
others.
It seems this discussion of humanity connects back to
citizenship; social lessons are just as much a part of the curriculum as the
textbooks we teach, or the standards we follow.
But these social lessons are
something that I know I need, and in ways, have been trying to teach, but they
seem very vague in my own district—it makes me realize that I need to find out
where my own school stands on issues of multicultural learning as well as on
the discussion of LGBT community.
I look at my district and realize that many students are
still surrounded by these restrictive “bubbles,” and the first thing I need to
ask myself is why? I feel many parents
want to protect their children from the harsh lessons of life and protect the
youth and innocence of their teenagers before they are swept away into
adulthood. And in many ways, that is justifiable.
However, sometimes these bubbles are created out of
ignorance. Some of that ignorance is
based on the misunderstandings of culture, sexuality, and so on…
So in order to stop this ignorance, these bubbles must be
broken, or rather expanded in some way—and we could start doing that by the
social lessons we teach in our schools.
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