{"id":101090,"date":"2022-08-22T23:18:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T23:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=101090"},"modified":"2022-08-22T23:18:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T23:18:36","slug":"nc-lt-gov-republican-mark-robinson-wants-to-ban-teaching-of-science-and-history-in-elementary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=101090","title":{"rendered":"NC Lt Gov, Republican Mark Robinson, Wants to Ban Teaching of Science and History in Elementary Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/in-memoir-nc-lt-gov-mark-robinson-mulls-2024-run-calls-for-taking-science-history-out-of-elementary-schools\/20427624\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WRAL<\/a>: &#8220;Education is perhaps the top policy priority for Robinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robinson said he\u2019d work to keep history, science and a number of other subjects out of first through fifth grade curricula and instead prioritize reading, writing and math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn those grades, we don\u2019t need to be teaching social studies,\u201d he writes. \u201cWe don\u2019t need to be teaching science. We surely don\u2019t need to be talking about equity and social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robinson also reaffirms personal views on climate change that became a major issue in the 2020 election. \u201cGuess what? Most of the people of North Carolina know global warming is junk science,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As lieutenant governor, Robinson is a voting member on the State Board of Education. He nonetheless says he\u2019d like to eliminate the department if he could.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WRAL: &#8220;Education is perhaps the top policy priority for Robinson. Robinson said he\u2019d work to keep history, science and a number of other subjects out of first through fifth grade curricula and instead prioritize reading, writing and math. \u201cIn those grades, we don\u2019t need to be teaching social studies,\u201d he writes. \u201cWe don\u2019t need to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101091,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101090\/revisions\/101091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}