Treaty Six Chiefs reject draft curriculum
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The Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations Cheifs says the new provincial draft K-6 curriculum is not what they were looking for from the province.
In a release on their website, the confederacy calls the draft a “Eurocentric, American-focused, Christian-dominant narrative that perpetuates rather than addresses systemic racism and falls far short of providing a balanced, nuanced perspective on Treaty 6 First Nations history and culture.”
“This proposed curriculum represents another disappointment for the Confederacy of Treaty 6, which was not consulted in its development. This government’s previous initiatives to reform the K-6 curriculum, which
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Last week, Alberta Education released the draft curriculum for K-6, saying the revised and strengthened K-6 curriculum is the result of more than a year of consultations with parents, teachers, and subject matter experts and is based on proven research designed to improve student outcomes across all subjects, following several years of declining and stagnant student performance, but many disagree.
Don Haywood, director of Sexual and Gender Acceptance Wetaskiwin, said he has two children in elementary school in Wetaskiwin Regional Public Schools Division and he’s concerned about what he’s seen in the draft curriculum.
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