What’s the difference between diversity and difference? Would you rather your child’s teacher provide equity, inclusiveness and social justice, or fair access, opportunity and advancement for all students?
These questions and more will be before members of the Georgia Professional Standards Commission as they consider changes to the rules for educator preparation in the state that eliminate words associated with so-called wokeness, like diversity, equity and inclusiveness.
The changes would apply to positions including elementary education and reading and literacy specialists, who teach up to grade 12, as well as educational leaders like principals and superintendents.
Many of the proposed changes switch out words like “diverse” for similar words like “different.”
One change for elementary school educators would call on them to get to know the “unique contexts of children and families,” as opposed to getting to know their “diverse cultural contexts” under the current rules.