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Fun takes a holiday in Somerville - BostonHerald.com (http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1373223 - broken link)
“When we were young we might have been able to claim ignorance of the atrocities that Christopher Columbus committed against the indigenous peoples,” wrote Kennedy School Principal Anne Foley. “We can no longer do so. For many of us and our students celebrating this particular person is an insult and a slight to the people he annihilated. On the same lines, we need to be careful around the Thanksgiving Day time as well.”
It's not as if she is entirey wrong. The problem is that we wrap ourselves in our childhood memories and traditions and lash out at any attempt to change them. And those who continued their educations did learn that things weren't as pretty and rosy as we beilved when we were little. History shouldn't be twisted to make us look good.
Although I see nothing wrong with making hand turkeys in November either.
It's not as if she is entirey wrong. The problem is that we wrap ourselves in our childhood memories and traditions and lash out at any attempt to change them. And those who continued their educations did learn that things weren't as pretty and rosy as we beilved when we were little. History shouldn't be twisted to make us look good.
Although I see nothing wrong with making hand turkeys in November either.
Hey, we came. We conquered. We tried to make amends. Anybody wish we hadn't come here? Anybody believe we'd all be better off to have stayed in Europe or meekly asked permission to stay? Anybody believe the "indiginous" people were totally pacifists and were never conquerors? Anybody believe in Utopia? Just sayin...
Next thing you know they will want to change the name of Christmas to Winter Holiday and Easter to Spring Break.
Oh! wait a minute. Come to think of it.
Fun takes a holiday in Somerville - BostonHerald.com (http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1373223 - broken link)
“When we were young we might have been able to claim ignorance of the atrocities that Christopher Columbus committed against the indigenous peoples,” wrote Kennedy School Principal Anne Foley. “We can no longer do so. For many of us and our students celebrating this particular person is an insult and a slight to the people he annihilated. On the same lines, we need to be careful around the Thanksgiving Day time as well.”
I probably wouldn't do Columbus Day, simply because the discovery did unleash a chain of tragic events that led to the end of many native american cultures. But see no qualms about Thanksgiving. The puritan settlement of New England is something to celebrate on many, many levels. And Halloween? Good grief. Let the kids have a little fun, for God's sake.
Although, I understand why the principal would want to do this. How many educators and schools have ended up on the news for being insensitive or too sensitive to political correctness? Schools--and principals, especially--don't like controversy and will usually do whatever they can to avoid it.
The Parents of the school should have a vote to remove this person as the one in charge of their children during the school day. Is this what the DOE is pushing these days?
Hey, we came. We conquered. We tried to make amends. Anybody wish we hadn't come here? Anybody believe we'd all be better off to have stayed in Europe or meekly asked permission to stay? Anybody believe the "indiginous" people were totally pacifists and were never conquerors? Anybody believe in Utopia? Just sayin...
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Next thing you know they will want to change the name of Christmas to Winter Holiday and Easter to Spring Break.
Oh! wait a minute. Come to think of it.
People already did this and Spring Break is now even written across the butt of girls pants!!
The Parents of the school should have a vote to remove this person as the one in charge of their children during the school day. Is this what the DOE is pushing these days?
Why does she need to be let go? If anything, lobby for disciplinary action if you don't like it. Is it just because she's trying to hard to please everybody, and in the process, is pleasing no one? Yeah, that case will hold up, sure.
Columbus day isn't really the celebration of its horrors... Thanksgiving isn't a celebration of the inhumane treatment of Native Americans... so the principal got it WRONG... Columbus day is the celebration of the founding of what is modern America.... Thanksgiving is a celebration of brotherhood of different races... that's what people are celebrating... to disallow the celebration of good things is idiotic.. there is no pure good nor is there pure evil...
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Just sayin...
