My take from Benjamin Levin’s article was that the curriculum based on what the political experts, and the political promoters in the province. Politian’s in our province, are not the most qualified to make decisions about our education system/curriculum. although they do not have the most knowledge about our education system, they do have the most pull to get things changed. Personally I think that the students, teachers, parents and board workers should have the most say in what is in the curriculum. Knowing now that politics have the most pull to get things changed and to better our education system, voting will become something I will take more seriously, take the party that focuses the most on the education system. Which will help me in my future career as well as my future students, children and grandchildren. I always knew that the Government made most of the decisions about the curriculum, but they need to be more open about getting opinions from the teachers, and parents. It is not fair that the people who don’t experience these things first hand, or have to deal with it every day are the ones that make the biggest decisions about it.
Treaties are very important to learn about. Personally, in my high school and elementary experience I never learned much about treaties. Now being a university student within the faculty of education, I am happy that this faculty and university takes a lot of pride on our treaty land and that we are all treaty people. It is great that we acknowledge this in every class, it has helped me learn a lot about where we live. All of the newly updated curriculums have been implementing lots of information on treaties. Since it is something that hasn’t always been acknowledged as prominently as it is now, it gives the impression that it wasn’t always something that was important. The lessons on treaties, have been getting bigger and bigger. I think whatever or however they choose to acknowledge treaties they will never be able to please everyone, something will always be up for debate.