“In their own verbiage, he was a bad guy,” teacher Laurie Crawford said.
Here is the left doing exactly what they accused their foes of doing.
Hey TEACHER!
Leave that kid alone!
Posted on 10/11/2009 11:36:57 AM PDT by Chet 99
TAMPA, Fla. – Jeffrey Kolowith's kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer's picture on a timeline through history.
Kolowith's students learn about the explorer's significance — though they also come away with a more nuanced picture of Columbus than the noble discoverer often portrayed in pop culture and legend.
"I talk about the situation where he didn't even realize where he was," Kolowith said. "And we talked about how he was very, very mean, very bossy."
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So typical of the the left to prey on the ignorant, naive, youth, poor, immigrant, etc types. Further proof they can’t win on the issues but instead how to try to brainwash the people they allegedly care about
Incredible hypocrites. No wonder they’re such unhappy, low self esteemed, dysfunctional types. I’ll bet this Jeffrey is the poster boy of the lot.
Teachers acting like divisive teenagers.
They were only following orders. And for the left that's an acceptable defense when the orders are politically correct.
One day, people will figure out the real purpose behind the founding of public schools, as well as the board of education.
When ole Chris got a bit too uppity on his second trip, that’s what happened to him. So let the exercise complete the analogy, by all means. Have them make construction paper chain then put it all around the taunters to be taken to the principal’s office to be paddled (assuming that’s done anymore in FL).
“...just the whole Columbus being the founder of the United States, doesn’t sit well with a lot of people...”
How about this: Columbus didn’t found the United States and in fact never set foot in what would become the United States. Hid so-called discoveries were in the Caribbean and in Central America. Our indigenous people here in the U.S. have no axe to grind with Columbus, whatsoever. What the hell kind of history is being taught to our children, anyway?
Moral Relativism rears its evil head -- again
Don't know how it's to be done but in order to produce adults who love their heritage and their nation one thing's for sure: Clowns like Felipe Fernandez-Armesto must be kept away from the classroom.
That’s also why we don’t (usually) call this place Columbia, but America.
Christopher Columbus was the ORIGINAL LIBERAL...
1. He didn’t know where he was going
2. When He got back... he didn’t know where he’d BEEN.
3. And made the whole trip with SOMEBODY ELSE’S MONEY.
“In their own verbiage, he was a bad guy,” teacher Laurie Crawford said.
Here is the left doing exactly what they accused their foes of doing.
Hey TEACHER!
Leave that kid alone!
IT does not prevent liberals from going to UFO cults and worshiping the very alien Columbuses they all so claim they hate. I mean, they are the ones behind the America’s tech came from UFOs and not from conservatives, type revisionism.
In Columbus time, they didn’t have an understanding about disease like we do today. These jackasses act as if he came to American knowing that his crew would infect people in the new world and kill off many of them. That’s a patently absurd stand.
As for whether he discovered the Americas or not, he most certainly did for Spain. And acting as if it didn’t count, because he didn’t know where he was, is just brain dead.
A team of astronauts leave earth intending to land on Mars. Instead they land on Venus by mistake. Hundreds of years later their accomplishment is invalidated, because they didn’t land on their goal Mars.
In Columbus day, you had to keep control of your ship. If you were not a stern taskmaster your crew could mutiny, kill you, or set you adrift in a small boat, just about the same as killing you.
These teachers are one clueless bunch of jerks.
I also find it amusing that one teacher says, “That’s what my children say.” Children only echo or mirror what they have been taught. If they are saying things that are extremely biased or untrue, then you can’t blame them. You blame the simpering idiot who gave them biased non-factual information.
I just wonder why Amerigo Vespucci is mentioned less than Columbus, at least as my impression on history books of public schools.
And why the place got called America not Vespuccia?
Indeed.
Like the rest of us did. It seems that, for the left, it’s never too soon to teach kids to hate their country and their culture. Well, American kids anyway.
I bet the teach MLK was a womanizer.
What that from a movie?
In Columbus day, the crew might very well have consisted of criminals of the worst sort.
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