As a student teacher I witnessed extreme inequalities in how science is communicated and taught at California elementary schools.
My first teaching experience was as a STEM education fellow in a program Cal Poly Pomona hosted during the 2022-23 school year. This program matched STEM majors with low-income elementary schools in hopes of exposing the students to more science. I started out excited about all the ways I was going to make science cool for the second-graders in my class. I was naive. My 7-year-olds were experiencing their first year in a classroom due to the pandemic and were so behind.
All elementary students should be exposed to science curriculum regardless of what school they attend. It's not a California problem. Educators have been working to address this problem nationwide. Jill Grace, the director of the K-12 Alliance, said that historically the United States has prioritized language arts and mathematics, and without laws that specifically mandate science or other subjects, it is easy for elementary and middle schools to skip this curriculum.
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