Gov. Noem Applauds Passage of Social Studies Standards

39 thoughts on “Gov. Noem Applauds Passage of Social Studies Standards”

1. Good to hear. Hope other reviewable standards do not become a circus in the public arena too.

2. Bravo!!! This is a first step toward remediation of a broken woke system that has strayed from educating our kiddos to indoctrinating them with dystopian beliefs.

   It’s not only a great day for the children. It’s a great day for America and I’m proud that South Dakota has taken a stand for truth to be taught in our schools.

   Thank you, Governor Noem for your support to bring this to fruition. This is just one more great achievement of your administration.

   1. One more great achievement? Please make the first. She’s a disaster and an embarrassment.

   2. 💥

   3. So if kids are still “woke” we can get rid of this trash later? Why not sunset some of these stupid ideas that we implement? Every new generation deliberately fails to conform to the previous generations norms. The older generations always gripe at the kids, but always fail to change the cultural revolution that comes with the new generation. It is only fitting that the boomers think they can be the one generation to change this cycle. I look forward to laughing at its failure.

      1. Do you really think this is about generational-dissonance? When an entire generation routinely fails basic reading, writing and math assessments? When many of today’s students don’t understand the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence? Maybe it’s about the standards.

         1. Yes, I do, just like long hair, the mullet, devil worshipers, rap music, violent video games, Marilyn Manson, cigarettes, homosexuality, swearing in music, marijuana. Who do you think makes the assessment on what is needed, educators with a background in education, or politicians with a gripe….hmmmm?

            I recall being told how bad swear words were, and how we need a warning on tapes that contain them, or else our country would fall to pieces. As if we as a species didn’t develop this language with those specific words, which are the most versatile in the language, and are used constantly. However, if the children hear these words, it is bad. It doesn’t make sense, this is a self developed grievance, why did we create these words? Why do we continue to develop our language and constantly try and revise terminology when we feel it sounds insulting to some people?

            I don’t know why things change, but I do know, it isn’t worth fighting.

            1. Your comment may have credibility if we saw widespread abandonment of reading, writing, and arithmetic in favor of cultural studies on swearing, pop music, etc. We didn’t. Today, we see widespread adoption of coursework that focuses on cultural issues and social activism at the expense of fundamental disciplines.

               1. Your comment may hold weight if “credibility” wasn’t subjective. You claim they are focusing on “cultural and social activism”, I have yet to see a high school course in South Dakota focus on such issues (my subjective opinion). The problem is you want them to be republicans, and the current republican agenda caters to old people, it always has. Instead of looking at the ultimate cause of this (GOP endorsed stances on the issues), you want to blame a proximate cause (it must be the schools that are turning the kids liberals, surely it isn’t the GOP stance). Try all you want, threaten all you want, the younger generations always rebel against the conformity of their parents generations ideals. Even in North Korea, under the punishment of death and death of their family, the younger generations trade flash drives of media and games that go against the government enforced “fundamental disciplines”. This is a losing battle, just as their predecessors were, and this one will be as well.

3. Yet the vast majority of those in the South Dakota education community do not want this. Great way to further destroy public education and drive more educators out of the state or into other professions.

   1. ~ Yet the vast majority of those in the South Dakota education community do not want this ~

      What orifice did you pull that out of?

      1. Cory Heidelberger.

   2. “vast majority” = code for majority of the teachers union members — the population of parents who have children support Noem on this one.

   3. First, I reject your “vast majority” premise.

      Second, teachers don’t love their students more than the parents. I’ll believe they do when they are feeding, clothing, housing, and responsible for how they grow up. Otherwise, they work for the parents. And, if unwilling, they need to be fired.

      Third, the effort to remove parental involvement and input and push curriculum contrary to parental values demands their authority to set curriculum be checked. See two above.

4. Why don’t we let educators make these decisions? The far right believes that they are experts in everything. So sad.

   1. Well, look what has happened to the education system in this country over the last 60 years. You can hardly say the right has been in control but rather the left. So maybe the left needs to step away.

      1. Are you that obtuse? In the last 60 years, the American educational system has dominated the world. Sent probes to deep space. Have multiple rovers on Mars. Huge breakthroughs in cancer research and treatment. Created and built the internet and all tech companies. Does none of that count??? Or does it not count simply because it doesn’t fit within your narrative? Wowsers!

         1. Because most of those breakthroughs you mentioned were accomplished by folks who went to grade and high school in the 60s and 70s.

            If the left has done such a wonderful job in the school systems, please please please explain the current performance achievements of the following school districts: Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, and San Diego.

         2. The education system has been a joke; within the state alone less than HALF of the students even meet proficiency levels. Education has been severely dumbed down and this is a start to students becoming truly educated through being challenged rather than told they are too stupid to learn things that actually are worthy of knowing.

      2. SO true. Our education system has gone down the toilet in the last 40 years.

   2. So… you think the GOP is the party of “experts” who claim to know everything? Given the last couple years, that’s a good one!

      1. Refer to these cities: Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, and San Diego.

         Please tell us how the liberal left have done such a wonderful job running these cities. Be specific.

      2. OH, and the last couple of years have been run by liberals. You know the mumblin-stumblin senile fool occupying the Whitehouse and his useless VP and up until January the liberals in Congress.

      3. Ok, poorly worded response. Anon @6:23 suggested conservatives are the ones prancing around as know it alls telling everyone what do to. The last couple years comment was sarcastic and rhetorical, referring to democrats claiming to be experts and telling us how to handle Covid.

   3. Because the extreme fringe right believe South Dakota public schools are a foothold for the California and West Coast leftists. ANTIFA/Marxists infiltrator secret agents in our South Dakota schools like Sanborn Central to Webster or Mitchell.

5. Ya, that stupid statement is based in reality.

6. Just watched a report on the news stating that US reading scores have hit a new record low…good job liberals.

   1. Whoa, lets stay consistent here. During the Obama admin these “scores” were used to justify common core, remember, when parents didn’t know how to do simple math homework of their kids? Now you are trying to use the same scores to justify this expansion of government? Anyone else smell that, smells like RINO?

   2. Good job liberals? Damn, in SD – that is a pretty bold statement, since the DOE had control over the educational standards for decades under Republican leadership. Maybe hold parents accountable for their kids, and their grades.

      Sadly, this train of thought makes the meme almost a reality… HEY TEACHIN’ LADY, WHY YOU TEACHING MY KIDS ALL OF THE COLORS??!?!? THE ONLY COLORS THEY NEED TO KNOW IS THE RED, WHITE N’ BLUE

      1. I guess your reading comprehension is a little low. “US reading scores” is what is referenced. You know, the nation as a whole? SD was not singled out in the post at all.

         Thanks for making my point.

7. If the left loses its grip on the education system, where will the kids learn about the 67-and-counting number of “genders”?

8. Why is it that people have such a problem with Hillsdale being associated with standards revision, but had no problem with Beth Ratway facilitating revisions in 2021??? Check out her history of work and speaking engagements.

9. It’s very hard to have an informed opinion about this if you haven’t read the standards. Here is a link to the standards, or at least the March 2023 version (maybe were slightly amended since then although I don’t think so):
   https://doe.sd.gov/contentstandards/documents/SS-Standards-033023.pdf

10. at the end of the day, education only takes you so far. a kid with enough motivation and skill could go as far as they wanted, back in these glory days you speak of. today, unless you come out of the right education funnel, you’re going to roll through a series of low paying janitor jobs that are always three hours per week under what is classified full time, until you either get more education or start your own servicemaster franchise. it’s a different environment, with layers of computer screenings, and different employer benefit mandates than the old days. it’s part of the current widening gulf between upper and lower class that gets ignored while everyone’s fighting the wrong fights and the middle class keeps vanishing. the federal govt is a way bigger burden to our kids than a local teacher wearing hippie sandals

11. Wow LOL!! This passage of curriculum standards really has the nut jobs over at the SD chapter of the national socialist blog (operated out of nebraska) going off the rails. There’s at least one lunatic over there calling for high school militia training and advocating nighttime ninja type militia activity to fight back against the threat of health and well being.

    What a loon.

    1. It’s what THEY do!

12. Discussions about Rosa parks and the Civil rights movement will make a lot of sense when you can’t acknowledge the reason why giving up your seat was a thing for certain groups of people.

13. Discussions about “a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” will make a lot of sense when everything is judged by the color of your skin and not by the content of character as is demonstrated by a certain political ideology today.

14. Personally, I think the “woke” people make very interesting historical arguments based on the racial and religious history of our country, economics, the constant struggle for equality, and our country’s quest for liberty and justice. This discussion has been going on since the days of Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, John Locke and Thomas Payne. Our freedom of inquiry is the envy of the world. Democracy is messy, but is the most perfect system of government yet devised. Let’s keep it that way.

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