In theory, the history dept chair, if brought to their attention, could counsel a colleague for teaching sloppy history. So could the admin assigned to that department. A parent could complain. In my experience, this would be chalked up to academic freedom and shrugged off to focus on "real problems." Oh, the board that accredits the school would be the real big boss to come down on this, but I don't have much experience with that
So in theory, if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time as a student, you could have been taught that Belgium started WWII by invading Portugal, and that's that?
There are state standards that are tested on, but it's pretty loose. It also depends on the school. I taught in a poor school in the hood, which gave me a lot of academic freedom cuz as long as my kids were actually in the classroom (not wandering the halls, not being sent to the principal's office), admin didn't care what I taught for the most part
Huh. There has to be some oversight, right? Or no?
In theory, the history dept chair, if brought to their attention, could counsel a colleague for teaching sloppy history. So could the admin assigned to that department. A parent could complain. In my experience, this would be chalked up to academic freedom and shrugged off to focus on "real problems." Oh, the board that accredits the school would be the real big boss to come down on this, but I don't have much experience with that
So in theory, if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time as a student, you could have been taught that Belgium started WWII by invading Portugal, and that's that?
There are state standards that are tested on, but it's pretty loose. It also depends on the school. I taught in a poor school in the hood, which gave me a lot of academic freedom cuz as long as my kids were actually in the classroom (not wandering the halls, not being sent to the principal's office), admin didn't care what I taught for the most part