A Child's First P.C. Thanksgiving

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 11/24/03 | Rex W. Huppke

[samtheman]

It would have made more sense to have the Indian culture lesson before thanksgiving, and a pilgrim's culture lesson on a different day, also before thanksgiving... and then a traditional thanksgiving at the school.

But school officials are nothing if not unimaginative and stupid. It's one of the qualifications for the job. Prospective school principles, for example, are tested before they're hired and if they put any round pegs in round holes that's it... they're out.

[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

"It's incredible how many Chicago public school teachers don't know anything about indigenous culture."

Not so incredible. Most of them don't know anything about math, history, science, etc.

[whereasandsoforth]

Don't these idiot educators know about era costumes? Exactly what did the indians wear in the 1600's? Was there a Sears & Robuck near Plymouth Rock?

If indians (of which I am) are so ashamed of their past it's little wonder they have a huge chip on their collective shoulders. I would explain to an inquisitive child that no, I was not born in a teepee. I was born in a hospital. But a lot of my forefathers were born in teepees.

Indians in leather and headdresses is not just a fashion statement made up in Hollywood. It really did happen. Don't be ashamed, you indians!

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Don't these idiot educators know about era costumes? Exactly what did the indians wear in the 1600's?

The buckskin clothes that we associate with 'white' backwoodsmen and the wild west were inspired by the Indians clothing of the east and northeast in the 1600s. Was that disrespectful to emulate their dress back then? Is it stereotyping then, to dress as Pilgrims? Aren't some of the points of Thanksgiving to come together, set aside conflicts, show goodwill, be thankful? I think Indians should feel honored that kids want to dress up in the old Indian dress, and how can you reenact the first Thenksgiving without representing everyone who was there? I hope this make sense. I have had no coffee yet.

[Gorzaloon]

There are 4253 persons on the Cherokee Nation Rolls as of 1924, as just one tribal example. Very likely, quite a few "Indians" were denied the right to diversely celebrate their heritage! :-)

Lawsuit!!!

[DJ Frisat]

"It's us adults, really," she said. "We're the ones that need to get our act together."

Is that a loud "amen!" I hear?

[Rebelbase]

I wonder how far one could take the "i'm offended" issue in the public schools.

[BBell]

>>>"At this age level, you let them dress up in feathers and do the little Indian thing, they'll grow up with that image in their head," Malatare said. "I've had people come up and ask me if I was born in a teepee. We need to start getting away from these stereotypes." <<<

And I've been asked if I owned slaves because I'm caucasian.

[NYer]

*"They're just going to remember the food," Miller-Davis said. "It's going to be, 'Yeah, the cake, the cake!'" *

That won't last long. Here is how a Maine school snuffed out festivities for their 5th graders

WATERVILLE — Fifth-graders at Albert S. Hall School got a lesson in hunger Thursday that they likely will never forget.

The 60 children were randomly given colored stickers to wear and led into the school library, told only that they were going to take part in an educational experience.

Those with yellow stickers were asked to sit at a banquet table at the head of the room — a table laid out with a sumptuous repast of roasted chicken, pizza, homemade bread, rich chocolate cake and other delectables. Fresh flowers and candles adorned the table, and a waiter stood by to bring them whatever they wanted.

The children wearing green stickers were asked to sit in a double row of chairs set up near the head table, but were told they would be eating only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and apple juice.

The meal for the largest number of students, who were seated on the floor, was a measly bowl of white rice and a small cup of water, tinted brown with food coloring.

Teachers Lesley Fowler and Sarah Thibault told the wide-eyed children that 1.2 billion people —about one-fifth of the world's population — live in poverty.

They said those at the head table represent 15 percent of that population — the well-to-do who have plenty to eat, adequate health care and a safe and comfortable home. Those sitting in the chairs represent the middle-income group who comprise about 30 percent of the world's population. Many of them are laborers who live on the edge, and suffer a harsh life. And those on the floor, representing the low-income people, make up about 55 percent of the population. They struggle for food and shelter, and likely never will have health care.

"This is a small slice of life as it plays out each day around the globe," Thibault said. "Now, we invite you to eat the way the world eats."

As children at the head table beamed while they dined on sweet treats, most of those on the floor were visibly unhappy, poking at their rice.

"That's no fair," said Matt Veilleux, 10, as he sat on the crowded floor, watching the luckier children munch on cake. "I don't like this stuff."

Jessica Wing, 11, said she wasn't comfortable sitting at the head table while her friends were relegated to the floor.

"I'm feeling really bad. I want to go and give food to them," she said.

Wing said she thought the lesson was a good way to teach children about hunger.

5th graders get hunger lesson (BARF)

Notice how the PC teachers pull these stunts on the youngest in an effort to indoctrinate ("brainwash") them. The older kids are 'fed' the Health curriculum of condoms and birth control.

[demkicker]

I wonder how far one could take the "i'm offended" issue in the public schools.

I'm so offended that the minority PC crowd has taken our history, religion and culture and flushed it that I could scream.

One thought: If parents stand by and let this stand, they deserve it. PERIOD! Enough is enough already. Fighting back is waaaay overdue and parents need to find their voices and backbones.

[demkicker]

Gee thanks, now I'm REALLY p*ssed off! Where in the world are the parents? Are they on PC meds or something?

[4mer Liberal]

Ping. For Sara

[OXENinFLA]

http://wlsam.com/listenlive.asp

[OXENinFLA]

Oops, Don Wade & Roma are talking and taking calls on this now...

[NYer]

*Teachers Lesley Fowler and Sarah Thibault told the wide-eyed children that 1.2 billion people —about one-fifth of the world's population — live in poverty. *

I'll bet the teachers sat down to a nice lunch AFTER delivering this lesson plan. No mention of what was done with the leftovers - donated to a soup kitchen or tossed in the day's trash barrels. The kids were NOT shown that!

[Puppage]

After a parent complained that the costumes the children had made might be offensive..

Once again the minority dictating to the MAJORITY. When will it ever end?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Don't tell me they're going to have to cancel next semester's Village People concert!?

[Rebelbase]

" Fighting back is waaaay overdue and parents need to find their voices and backbones."

Sadly, the majority of the parents of school age kids in this country is tilting in favor of those who were educated in the PC era. The apathy toward schools is horrible...people complain louder when their cable tv goes out than they do at the current state of the liberal education system.