“Hello, just a concern regarding the listener comments that promote Throughline. As a long time, public high school, social studies, teacher, devoted, NPR listener and Throughline subscriber, I resent the listener comment that you broadcast regarding the supposed continual failures of public education. In this case, the commentator states that this is the story or stories that public education does not or cannot or is not allowed to promote. This is wildly inaccurate, and I think it is a thoughtlessly accepted and unquestioned trope about the failures of public education. I think the uneducated perception of many uninformed or misled Americans is that public school social studies teachers do not have latitude to discuss controversial or unusual stories and histories. This is simply not true. I would invite any skeptic about the quality of public education and how we are supposedly muffled or restricted in the thoughts or ideas that we can promote to our students to come to my classroom and see the truth. I’m tired of having the value of the topics and views I teach, and the quality of the teaching taking place in my public high school thoughtlessly demeaned to promote the supposed superiority of private school education or some other misguided ideal.”
run406 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/11/24