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Wake County educator's tweet on teaching Thanksgiving goes viral
WTVD11 ^ | 11/21/18 | Tim Pulliam

Posted on 11/21/2018 6:47:38 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt

WAKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- Wake County Schools Director of Equity Lauryn Mascarenaz shared a firm message to all teachers in a tweet that has gone viral:

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"Teachers repeat after me: I will not have students make "Indian feathers and clothes..I will not culturally appropriate an entire people for cute activities. I will tell students the truth about this country's relationship with Indigenous people."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: americans; education; indians; native; thanksgiving
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The state board of education governs the curriculum around America's history and the origins of Thanksgiving.

The board provides grade-level guidelines and resources for teachers to consider in lesson plans.

Wake County Schools said it supports the controversial tweet.

1 posted on 11/21/2018 6:47:38 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Well then at this point it’s up to parents to tell the kid to do whatever the #### he decides and if he/she gets in trouble they will stand by him/her.

BTW, does this c### go out of the way to stop cultural appropriation from foreign kids/adults who use an American made product, Twitter?


2 posted on 11/21/2018 6:51:21 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Just remember - Indians with horses or pickups is cultural appropriation.


3 posted on 11/21/2018 6:52:11 AM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Our five year old grandson is homeschooled...I helped him make his grocery bag Indian vest and feather headband to wear for thanksgiving. And I am reading him Rush Revere’s First Thanksgiving book. Being politically correct is not my strong suit. ROFL


4 posted on 11/21/2018 6:55:05 AM PST by republicanbred (...and when I die I'll be republican dead.)
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To: PeteB570

“...Director of Equity...” She’s an “EdD student”

Says it all: totally worthless.


5 posted on 11/21/2018 6:56:09 AM PST by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: dp0622

Don’t know the answer to your question.


6 posted on 11/21/2018 6:56:25 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Virtue signaling morons who do not know history, yet are over-paid to "teach" it.

1. First, they stole the true meaning of Thanksgiving and turned it into a hallmark holiday.

2. Second, they snivel that the fake hallmark holiday is "misappropriating" somebody's something.

Tell me how Thanksgiving has anything, whatsoever, to do with Pilgrims or indians?

President George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1789

7 posted on 11/21/2018 6:56:52 AM PST by USMC79to83
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Wake County Schools said it supports the controversial tweet. “

There you have it. These are the people who have your kids all day.


8 posted on 11/21/2018 6:57:17 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: republicanbred

“...Being politically correct...” means you don’t have a strong suit.

Keep up the good work.


9 posted on 11/21/2018 6:57:22 AM PST by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: republicanbred

Homeschooling is the hope of this country! Glad you don’t do PC well. Sounds like your grandson has had fun and been educated at the same time. Good for you!


10 posted on 11/21/2018 6:58:20 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Where’s my casino ?


11 posted on 11/21/2018 6:58:40 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

If “cultural appropriation” was enforced across the world i wonder how many business would fail and people would die if any and all American products and services needed to stop being used.

Don’t “culturally appropriate” any medicine or treatments or technology we’ve created.

Dumb ####s.


12 posted on 11/21/2018 6:59:42 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

This is why I voted against the Wake County school bonds.


13 posted on 11/21/2018 6:59:54 AM PST by beef (The more they tighten their grip, the more blogs will slip through their fingers.)
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To: gibsonguy

Wake County is a totally BLUE, PC county.

I used to teach in Wake County, many many years ago.

It was Politically correct way back then too. So I am sure it is insufferably so now.

Director of Equity, my foot.

Private Christian Schools and homeschooling are, as I said, the hope of this country. There just aren’t enough of em.


14 posted on 11/21/2018 7:01:13 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

LOL.


15 posted on 11/21/2018 7:01:39 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: PeteB570

Thank you.

And any that use twittter and facebook and ANYTHING else that was created by Americans.

What I’ve noticed lately that bothers me is these things are happening a lot in NON insane states like mine, NY.

I am not shocked to read this about NY or NJ or whatever.

But it’s Texas and NC and even Mississippi.

It’s happening all over the country and it’s insanity.

It was always comforting to think the south and lower midwest hadn’t lost their minds at least.

Now some are beginning to.

and the folks are not ALWAYS transplants.

Like those THREE judges in the same area who got booted in TX!! Three GOOD judges, from what it sounds like.

Geesh!


16 posted on 11/21/2018 7:02:58 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: beef

I did too (voted against the School Bonds issue).

Enough of a money hole already.


17 posted on 11/21/2018 7:03:08 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

And each summer when the news says “Coming up next, a fight over redistricting” you know it’s Wake County.


18 posted on 11/21/2018 7:03:20 AM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

When I went to elementary school in the 1960s, it was a golden era compared to today.


19 posted on 11/21/2018 7:03:45 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: PeteB570

And Wake County is the largest school system in the state, I believe, even larger than Charlotte/Mecklenburg County.

Doing so much PC damage.


20 posted on 11/21/2018 7:05:30 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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