The importance of making curricula more inclusive

One would think that ‘modern people’ have made great progress over the last decades. Indeed, we live in the era when people feel free to express themselves and reveal their identities, regardless of their place or occupation, and yet, many people, including some educators, fail to acknowledge the need to improve the curriculum experiences by paying due consideration to the needs and/or interests of those students representing a specific gender-/sexual-minority because of the fear of facing community protest (Page, 2016). In fact, it is shame that modern societies fail to let go of their hatred and intolerance towards those who are different but teachers, as well as other literacy educators, are the ones who take an active part in “raising” new generations of people that are supposed to be better than older ones, that is exactly why teachers should not hesitate to make curricula more inclusive for all kinds of students and make every attempt to encourage students to think outside the box and learn to accept others people’s differences.