In California, media literacy is now a required subject in K through 12 schools.
New York State is following their lead soon.
And I can't think of a worse idea.
As a journalist and career communications professional, I'm all for media literacy.
I think vetting the abundant amounts of information around us is more important than ever.
But state mandated media literacy is a different story.
That idea is ripe for abuse.
These concepts should be in the hands of parents or caring adults or yourself as you grow up and learn through trial and error, not dictates from politicians with their own agendas, no matter what party they come from.
It's bad enough that our public schools are struggling, teaching, reading, writing, and arithmetic.
How about we get the basics right before we add more to those plates?
And to my friends who are in a hurry to skew curricula to the left or the right, stop it.
Let's agree to stop using kids as pawns in the culture war.
Stop it.
And always remember and never forget, we live in a republic and every power you turn over to the government isn't easy to get back.
That's how the country is designed.
Those powers that you're so eager to give up will be wielded by whoever is in control.
And the reality is that someday it won't be your party.
And you won't like their choices.
If history has taught us anything, it's that nothing lasts forever, especially in politics.
What do you think?
And am I wrong here?
And how should we teach media literacy?
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