Excellent piece. I’d add that not only are students discouraged by those who push science to the side but that educators are so underfunded, overburdened, and responsible for educating students in under resourced schools, that it’s turning them away from teaching. And why would they stay when they are attacked, stopped from teaching, have to justify curricula to their (uneducated) critics? When their administration is subjected to school boards or misguided laws that do not care about real education? It’s a travesty.
Indeed a travesty as if there were no consequences ahead
Excellent piece. I’d add that not only are students discouraged by those who push science to the side but that educators are so underfunded, overburdened, and responsible for educating students in under resourced schools, that it’s turning them away from teaching. And why would they stay when they are attacked, stopped from teaching, have to justify curricula to their (uneducated) critics? When their administration is subjected to school boards or misguided laws that do not care about real education? It’s a travesty.