[quote=walterwhite]Other than math and science, it’s difficult for me to visualize a content neutral curriculum.[/quote]
And amazingly, this is the exact area that the U.S. educational system seems to be the weakest right now!! go figure.
I could also add reading/writing to the list too, because some of the ‘English’ I have heard/read lately can only be loosely called ‘English’. The subject matter of the written or spoken word might not be content neutral, but the ability to read with comprehension and to write clearly is.
Not to disparage those who have worked their ways up from ‘underclasses’.. but to have full coverage of every single ‘underclass’ and perceived “underclass”, it would take the next 100 years to have “social studies lessons” for all of those classes involved in the last 100 years. It also would not solve the ‘bullying’ that can occur. You actually have to address the mentality behind ‘bullying’, and this mentality is not because the feel ‘misunderstood’. It is because the ‘bully’ does it because they can.
