From Frank Beckmann's column, edited somewhat by me "Sustainable curriculum teaches kids to envy success":
The latest school to start a curriculum called "Sustainability Education" will be Eastover Elementary School in Bloomfield Hills. This curriculum takes existing lessons and slants them with a union and environmental agenda, for example promoting boycots of corporations and workers rights movements. Suggested resources include Zero Population Growth materials to promote lower birth rates.
Of course, even though this curriculum was adopted in one of Detroit's wealthiest suburbs and home to numerous Big 3 auto executives through the years, not a single school board member suggested that the wealth of Bloomfield Hills was unfairly created and not one cited any inequities that they were immediately willing to correct by surrendering their own lofty status in one of America's most well-to-do communities
The Bloomfield Hills school board unanimously approved the change back in May. Eastover Principal Jami Wood told the board that Sustainability Education will "support our students' learning as well as our own." Huh?? Teachers learning along with the fifth-graders rather than giving instruction? Wood issued a handout which said the new curriculum "prepares students to create a healthy environment, a fair economy, and an equitable society," whatever such non-specific rhetoric is supposed to mean.
Not a word of protest was uttered during the proposal's presentation. We'll let China and India worry about producing more engineers and highly skilled workers to gobble up high-paying jobs in the future. We'll let Eastover and other schools train their students to protest that success and complain about the unfairness of it all.
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