Americans would never let a good money making gimmick like the Loch Ness Monster slip away. Shame on the so-called "thrifty" Scots.
Posted on 03/26/2022 3:45:05 PM PDT by Trillian
To many, it’s a fun fairytale to lure tourists; to others, it’s a genuine mystery – or just a silly hoax.
But to woke education chiefs, the Loch Ness Monster is a potent symbol of England’s domination of Scotland – a theory which will now be taught in schools.
Pupils north of the border are to be told how the mythical beast reinforces negative stereotypes and ingrains bias about the Scots.
Schoolchildren will be taught how the class structure had a role in the creation of the legend, and how stories surrounding the creature relate to debate on Scottish Independence and even the Cold War.
But campaigners last night criticised the classes as ‘nationalist, anti-British propaganda’ aimed at ‘brainwashing’ pupils.
The remarkable claims about Nessie come in a 17-page social studies lesson plan to help secondary school teachers teach what the monster’s portrayal in films says about Scotland’s image and how it affects ‘wider contemporary topics, such as the Independence Referendum’.
The material aims to help 11-to-14- year-olds ‘recognise persuasion and bias’ and asserts that the monster was ‘designed as a tourist attraction to appeal to the motoring middle classes’ during the Depression.
Though the earliest reports date from the 6th Century, the Nessie phenomenon exploded in the 1930s with a flurry of alleged sightings and photographs.
And the first film about Nessie was 1934’s low-budget horror romp The Secret Of The Loch.
The lesson plan says the movie monster ‘shows the somewhat ambivalent position that Scotland holds in the Union… the very idea of a prehistoric monster in a loch affirms the stereotypical idea that Scotland – by contrast to England – is a rural wilderness, perhaps one bypassed by progress.
‘The monster’s depiction suggests that although there was a “primitive” wilderness in Scotland before the state of Britain,
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Except Nessie was educated in the best universities.
How many tourists does Loch Ness get?
“BraveHeart” has been on
My Rotation lately.
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“FREEDOM!”
You said what I was thinking, Brudda.
And then there's "Champ" in Lake Champlain.
Well, Scottish school kids, you probably already thought that school sucks. It does. It’s about to get worse.
I have to admit, I passed through there decades ago, and had to wait for a train. Having a couple of beers looking out over the water, you just can’t help but stare and wonder. I had no idea that I was participating in the “British class system” by doing so.
I hate this timeline.
More Marxist “you can’t have fun in life” indoctrination.
Americans would never let a good money making gimmick like the Loch Ness Monster slip away. Shame on the so-called "thrifty" Scots.
Ach, loan me quid until Wednesday and I’ll gi’ye some haggis.
Thank goodness! I thought only America’s academic system was ruled over by drooling idiots. I’m glad to see we’re not the only one
Theremarkabletransparently stupid claims about Nessie come in a 17-page social studies lesson plan to help secondary school teachers teach what the monster’s portrayal in films says about Scotland’s image and how it affects ‘wider contemporary topics, such as the Independence Referendum’./
And Heavens to Murgatroyd, no one may enjoy themselves.
Wow I hope you realized how classist you were and go back and apologize to the Scots.
Several years ago, while walking on the shore of Lake Champlain, I heard the splash of a large animal jumping into the lake, but I couldn't see what it was, as it was behind some bushes. By the time I got to the site, it had vanished.
I assumed the animal was a seal, but my sister-in-law's father, a local resident, told me that there are no seals in the lake. So it might have been Champ.
Is nothing sacred?
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