Canadian province moves to cut politics and ideology from school curriclum with new law | Eastern NC Now

The political left around the world has seen public education as a place to indoctrinate students.  Using radical teachers unions, liberal textbook companies, and liberal school bur3eucracies they are working to infiltrate their ideology into the curriculum.

This has become a problem many places in America.  There are a recent uproar from parents in Alaska when their new social studies curriculum failed to mention George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, or a number of key figures in state history.  The problem was that state education officials relied on outside "experts" to design the curriculum.  Iowa 's legislature and governor are currently in a battle with their department of Education after it proposed a social studies curriculum that promoted illegal immigration, and only gave the CO2 climate alarmist theory in its discussion, failing to mention contrary scientific theories, among other failings within the curriculum.  Those are conservative states but leftists in the public school establishment managed to worm their way in.

The Canadian province of Alberta's Conservative government has introduced Bill 25 in its legislature to tackle the political indoctrination problem there.  As a bill proposed by the cabinet, it has an almost guaranteed majority for passage.  To strip "ideology and bias" from the classroom, Bill 25 requires the curriculum to present materials and concepts in a "neutral and impartial way"..  The bill requires students to be informed of varying viewpoints on controversial topics and not be steered to one particular viewpoint.

Bill 25 is entitled "An Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from Classrooms and Amend the Education Act".  It would remove "diversity" as a goal of education and prohibit "specialty flags" like the "Pride Flag" in classrooms.  The bill prohibits school boards from taking positions on political, social, or ideological issues.  Superintendent contracts will now require approval from the province.

https://www.rebelnews.com/alberta_moves_to_strip_politics_and_ideology_from_classrooms_with_sweeping_education_overhaul

This bill tracks a longstanding provision of British school law that requires that all sides of politically controversial topics be presented to students without any bias toward any one viewpoint.  When some schools showed Al Gore's climate documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" in class, it was challenged in court, with the British High Court ruling that the movie is a "propaganda film" containing multiple misstatements of fact, and ordered that it not be shown to school children without disclaimers of those things.

Our own Beaufort County School Board has taken some steps in this direction, such as banning DEI, CRT, and radical gender ideology in its curriculum.  However, it has not always followed through when the rubber meets the road.  It recently approved a Science curriculum that indoctrinates on climate alarmism,  failing to mention two other very differing positions held by many climate scientists.  It did, however, on a split vote, allow supplementing that curriculum with other separate materials that reflect other scientific viewpoints.  Conservative school board members will now have to find available materials.

A poll by the Locke Foundation of North Carolina parents found that 71% of them are concerned about ideological bias in the classroom here in our own state.