From the article:
"The Education Department said it did not tell early learning staff what to teach children."
I do not have any issues with rhymes, songs, fairytales being update or adapted to make them relevant to students. This has been going on for centuries.
Why not have children sing the song multiple times and instead of "black sheep", children instead shout out a colour "black"; "white"; "yellow"; "red" or "one sheep"; "two sheep"; "three sheep". Despite it being more personally meaningful for the students, it's also far more educational. You only have to look at "Old MacDonald" to see that rhymes are adaptable to what students believe is on the farm, as opposed to what is originally on the farm in an abject adherance to a line by line recitation.
The article has focused on a political-correctness-gone-mad point of view, rather than an evolution in early childhood education - but again, would have been a rather pointless article if it had been on the latter.
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