We Erased ‘Loyalty’ From the English Curriculum and Replaced It With ‘Identity’
The essential English vocabulary list has quietly swapped ‘humble,’ ‘loyalty,’ and ‘generous’ for ‘community,’ ‘identity,’ and ‘narrative.’ This isn’t a harmless updateβit’s an epistemological shift that trades a vocabulary for building character for one that analyzes power structures. We’re teaching a generation to diagnose systems while erasing the words that name what it means to be a good person.