Educational Accountability

It is commonly stated that if we are unaware of our histories, we are doomed to repeat the unlearned lessons of the past.

We believe by educating our youth to the many facets of American history that have conspired to create our present reality, we can begin to unlearn the bigotry and racism which is so ingrained in our society. 

PARC is committed to working with the diverse members of Pitman to create a racially inclusive curriculum which addresses the many ways in which systemic racism has affected equity and equality in the United States. 

Join us to help hold our educational system accountable

Proposed Social Studies Curriculum Outline: Grades K-12

K-1: Early North America

  • Indigenous Tribes on the land known as the Americas

2: Early Immigrant Groups 

  • Who Were They?

  • Why Did They Come?

  • Relationship with Indigenous People

3: Agriculture and Labor

  • European indentured servants

  • Convicts

  • Free and enslaved Indigenous people

  • Enslaved Africans

4: Mexico and Texas

  • Part 1: How the US gained Mexican territory

  • Part 2: What this meant for Mexican people on both sides

5: Asian Migration

  • Chinese (Chinese Exclusion Laws 1882-1943)

  • Japanese (Gentlemen’s Agreement 1907-1908)

  • Middle East and Southeast Asia (Barred Zone Act)

  • Filipinos (Tydings McDuffie Act 1934)

6: North American Indigenous Peoples

  • The Portrayal of Indigenous People vs Realities of Indigenous People

7: Introduction of African Slave Trade and Chinese Indentured Servitude

  • Part 1: West Africa Pre-Slave Trade: The Thriving Culture and the Riches of the Land

  • Part 2: Slave Trade and the Rebellion of the Enslaved

  • Part 3: Chinese Migration and the Role of Chinese in US

8: Black Wall Street/Jim Crow/Segregation

  • Part 1: Black Wall Street and the Destruction of Thriving Black Communities

  • Part 2: The Jim Crow Era

  • Part 3: Segregation

9: Major Immigration Groups: Past and Present

  • Colonial Era Irish

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Ellis Island

  • Mexicans for Job Filling During WW2

  • Quota System

  • Immigrant Amnesty

  • Muslim Travel Bans

10: Civil Rights Movement: What You Think vs What Happened

  • Part 1: Martin Luther King & The Right to Vote / Rosa Parks and the Setup to Boycott

  • Part 2: Struggles Toward Inclusion (The Little Rock Nine, The Stonewall Riot, Disabled Rights Movement)

11: The American Justice System & Inequality in the Law

  • The 13th Amendment

  • The Mathematical Statistics of the Law: Why the Numbers Don’t Add Up

  • Three Strikes Rule & Stop and Frisk

  • The War on Drugs

  • Privatized Prisons and the Relationship with Corporations

12: Banking Practices/FHA/Red Lining

  • FHA and Inequity in Housing

  • Red-Lining and How it Inhibited Generational Wealth

  • Inequity in Banking and How it Affects Different Communities

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