A dream career as a high school social studies teacher in Maryland’s upscale Montgomery County ended this summer when Brenda Diaz saw the school’s new curriculum.
The new content was “insidious, deceitful, and divisive,” said Diaz.
The tenured teacher with seven years of teaching experience in the county said that the Covid mandates also were a factor guiding her to get out of the public schools.
“True, medical mandates were the tipping point for me to quit, but I was already on the verge of quitting because of the new curriculum,” said Diaz.
Brenda Diaz doing a selfie with her social studies students. (Courtesy of Brenda Diaz)
Born and raised in a working-class Latino neighborhood in New York, Diaz had climbed academic heights before landing at Gaithersburg High School as a social studies authority. She got into Georgetown University and right out of the blocks was selected as a White House intern….