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Columbus Day is a stupid reason to have off school....sheesh, how many damn Mondays will schools close? No wonder American kids are so far behind the rest of the world.
The teacher, WHO CANNOT AND DID NOT KEEP THE SCHOOL OPEN was right...Columbus was no saint.
Should education perpeptuate myths?????
Or tell the truth????? I vote for truth.
So your position is that what the teacher told the class is accurate and truthful? That would explain a lot.
BTW, please tell me where in my post I claimed any of the bolded comment you added. If you have trouble staying on task please skip my thread.
My highschoolers did not observe Obama's speech to the students. Apparently, no one cared whether or not we wanted our kids to hear/see it. I guess they cared more about the views of the parents who actually called and "lambasted" the administration. Seems like the loud and ugly squeaky wheel still gets the grease.
And by the way, how do you want the kids/schools to "observe" Columbus Day? Put together a play, Broadway musical, pep rally,what??? Our kids went to school as always. My husband went to work. What else is there?
Oh, as far as the majority in my town- it is 99.8% white, mostly Christian and conservative. So, don't blame the "Hispanic majority" at your son's school and make them out to be the ones to blame because I doubt that it's true.
People who live in ivory towers shouldn't throw loud and ugly stones.
I agree with you and it is, to me, symptomatic of a poor teacher.
I recall, some years ago, my daughter was doing a year of high school in the UK. One of her subjects was modern studies and there just happened to be a general election on during the class. The teacher was able to use the election to animate the subject matter. Yet my daughter - who passed the class with an A - never did figure out which side the teacher was on. That is good teaching.
I took two courses in comparative religion in college and nobody EVER could figure out what religion the teacher was. He laughed at us when we asked and said 'That would't be the point, would it?'. 10 years later I remember that answer and to this day he was one of my favorite teachers.
Regarding Columbus... we didn't observe the day in school either, but we also didn't get the PC version of his life. We learned the bad, and the good and I am very thankful of that.
I don't think that's a Freudian slip...I think it's a typo...after all the "m" and "n" keys are next to each other.
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Originally Posted by JetJockey
Regarding Columbus... we didn't observe the day in school either, but we also didn't get the PC version of his life. We learned the bad, and the good and I am very thankful of that.
I don't think that's a Freudian slip...I think it's a typo...after all the "m" and "n" keys are next to each other.
lol yes it was a typo.
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