Curriculum for Pre-k?
At last night’s UFT Exec Board the special order of business was to approve 4 resolutions – not to send to the Delegate Assembly – but rather to send directly to the NYSUT Representative Assembly.
One of them (which I wish I had read in advance) called for curriculum for pre-k. I raised a question (unfortunately, I was not well-prepared and did not articulate well), and abstained.
In retrospect, my concern fell in two related categories (not that I expresed myself this clearly):
- Why should poor kids have curricula when rich kids don’t? I should have raised concern about losing playtime as a result.
- In every other area where we have advanced standards for students, students and teachers have been
