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To: wardaddy

But not in detail right? This is a class of 5th graders, 10 or 11 yr olds. They probably don’t know the term “Holocaust”

Or much about US and European History since it isn’t taught much at this grade level. And if they don’t have parents or grandparents or greatgrandparents, to tell them this stuff, oral history, how else would they know until it’s taught in school?

I regularly sub for a class that is majority Indian (India). It’s fascinating. Really bright kids. I’m learning a lot about the history of India. But they don’t know all that much about US and European History. Their parents don’t know about it either.


55 posted on 04/23/2009 12:58:00 AM PDT by Twink
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To: Twink; Travis McGee
my 8 year old is very articulate and verbal.....he grasps concepts and history well

hard with math

hard with writing

lefty, somewhat dyslexic

He knows precisely what happened under the Nazis...camps, torture, ovens.

He also knows that similar things have happened elsewhere and will again.

We live where much blood was shed once here (Shy's Hill) and he knows that in these troubled times that it might happen again and possibly on his watch.

He's proud of where he comes from and his kinfolks that died for our country and the South.

That's how I raise them. Kids like he will be one day are where most of our combat seeking troops come from.

I raise my children to be realists. That is cornerstone of conservatism.

But yes, in public school they are brainwashed with Black History Month, Earth Day, Non Christian religion, Women's Studies etc.

My kids know it for what it is.

They did a report on famous blacks last month...all lefty no gooders or victim class enablers....no Booker T, Clarence or Thomas Sowell.

He did Clarence...and got an A from his old fart lib teacher anyhow.

This is what we deal with. Stuff my own parents 40 years ago never had thrown at them,

Hey btw....I gotta crash...my 2 year old just wandered down the long hallway with blankey, bottle and pacy in hand...I let him sleep with us sometimes...he is the last baring immaculate conception..lol

you know...he might not know the term Holocaust...but he sure knows Nazis adn Hitler and Luftwaffe and even SS...he has asked me why they had betetr uniforms than we did?...lol

58 posted on 04/23/2009 1:12:09 AM PDT by wardaddy (America, Ship of Fools)
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