South Dakota Board of Education Standards Postpones Meeting
The Department of Education announced Friday that a school board standards meeting originally scheduled for Monday will be postponed.
According to the DOE, a new conference date will be announced soon. The meeting is adjourned to “confirm the submitted comments.”
Monday’s meeting was scheduled to include a public hearing to consider adopting and amending a proposed rule prohibiting the adoption of content standards that foster an inherently fragmented notion.
These rules are intended to comply with Governor Christy Noem’s Executive Order 2022-02. The executive order comes after a bill banning “divisive concepts” in K-12 education was defeated in Congress in the spring. A similar bill was passed for higher education.
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The proposed rule states that establishing and revising educational content standards is the job of the Ministry of Education, BOES, and “other state agencies,” and that BOES “does not mandate curricula or teaching materials.”
Scholarly content standards that promote “intrinsically divisive concepts,” as described in Noem’s Executive Order, do not direct or compel students or educators to personally affirm, adopt, or adhere to defined concepts. You must not be hired to
The divisive concepts listed are:
- The inherent superiority of one race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.
- Individuals should be discriminated against or unfairly treated, solely or in part, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.
- An individual’s moral character is essentially determined by race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.
- An individual is, consciously or unconsciously, racist, sexist, or oppressive in nature because of race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.
- Based on an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, ethnicity, or nationality, any act previously committed by another member of the same race, color, religion, gender, ethnicity, or nationality; personal responsibility for; and
- Meritocracies and traits such as strong work ethics are racist or sexist, or created by one race or gender to oppress members of another race or gender.
Argus leaders are requesting copies of all public comments ever submitted to BOES regarding the proposed rule. The deadline for these comments to be submitted by members of the public was Wednesday.
Hundreds of public comments have flooded BOES in the past. Especially when it was announced that in 2021 he had removed more than 10 references to Oceti Sakowin from the draft social studies standards produced by the workgroup that the DOE was previously responsible for reorganizing the standards. is. It was released to the public.
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Nearly 600 public comments were submitted to BOES last September as the DOE decided to move to a larger venue than originally anticipated, as it prepared to hold its first public hearings on the standard.
