Schools Offer ‘Emotional Support’ to Students, Teach About ‘Sedition’ After Capitol Riot

Breitbart ^ | January 8, 2021 | Kyle Olson

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Public schools across the country are quickly responding to Wednesday’s events at the U.S. Capitol by offering “emotional support” for students and teaching vocabulary words such as “insurrection” and “sedition.”

Ally Stanton, a kindergarten teacher in Needham, Massachusetts, told 25 News:

I had a lot of students coming in this morning saying things such as Mommy and Daddy were watching a lot of news, bad guys got into the White House, there were bad people that were trying to hurt others in Washington. A lot of them were really concerned because they know that people shouldn’t be breaking into buildings… that it’s just not normal for them.

Boston-area school districts’ “regular lesson plans were either pushed aside or modified to include discussions about the demonstration against the presidential election that turned into a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol,” the news station reported.

Diana Cross, a middle school English teacher, refused to call it a “protest.”

“It wasn’t just an articulation that there’s an injustice happening. It was violent and it was chaotic. As I said to my students, several words you could use: an insurrection, a riot. We talked about the word ‘coup’ and we also talked about ‘sedition,’” she said.

Meanwhile, in New York, students at Pawling High School asked questions like, “Why (did President Donald Trump) start off his speech with how he understood why they were doing it and continue to make false claims about how the election was stolen?” and “Do you think there will be a civil war?” according to the Poughkeepsie Journal.

Teachers used “recent training in the wake of racial justice protests seen over the summer and fall” to talk to students about what happened Wednesday.

“Pine Plains Superintendent Martin Handler likened the emotional impact of Wednesday to the 9/11 attacks,”....

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Amusing post.

We, too, are childless, financially stable, in our sunset years and should be comfortable for the rest of our days.

The lockdowns should be lifted soon now that we have been conquered so that we can actually enjoy some of our reserves but yet I cannot help but mourn for the loss of the country that we worked, lived and fought for.