Arizona launched an 'anti-woke' hotline for parents to report 'inappropriate' topics their children are taught at school, including CRT and gender ideology
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But Horne wants Arizona to reverse this trend, pouring more resources into the core tenets of academics while shying away from contemporary topics. "There have been very negative trends in society and in our public schools," Horne said."My predecessor was a Democrat who emphasized woke ideology in all those categories I mentioned, and we've got to fight back and bring the power back to the parents and stop the woke teaching and focus on academics."
"Test scores have hit the bottom of the well," he continued."We've got to get the test scores up. In order to do that, we need to focus on academics, and we need to get rid of these otherHorne noted that there has been a significant amount of positive feedback from parents, although there has been some criticism.
One Arizona teacher, who scrutinized the measure in a viral TikTok, accused the state of implementing the hotline due to White supremacy.
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