Opinion: 'Major problems' with column on social studies curriculum

A July 19 David Staples column expressed anxieties present for over a year about the overhaul of the social studies curriculum. His article is a reaction to a prototype of the K-4 social curriculum, and is mainly a catalogue of perceived deficiencies in the curriculum and disapproval of its overall tenor.
Instead of teaching Canadian history, he writes, or speaking of what it means to be “Albertan,” it talks about “First Nations, Metis, Inuit, francophone and diverse group