Yeah, My kids spent two whole years learning about Indians in “history”. Like what symbols they used, how they made rattles, etc.
To quote him “In addition to that, throughout the entire elementary year I had to learn about Indians. Then in middle school it was Indians, Indians, Indians. In eight grade he had to read a book about Indians. All the people in these books are stupid. Even the Indians are prejudiced. That was “Light in the Forest”.
Also what with all the emotional female oriented reading? My son spent four months analyzing “To Kill a Mockingbird”. They spent endless boring hours over-analyzing the emotional content of the book. How did “so and so” feel about such and such. Even when how someone feels is open to debate the teacher wanted her interpretation not only expressed by herself but by the kids in the class. There was only one right answer and it had a certain political slant.
Both my boys want to read exciting boy oriented stuff. No wonder boys English skills are going down. Every once in a while it would be nice if a book wasn’t portraying such a negative image of people, particularly of white people.
My son says they did a school wide set presentations on Columbine, and he thinks they went entirely overboard on it.
It involved assemblies and multiple teachers doing presentations, and associated writing assignments of poems, and paintings, etc. On and on.
They were depicting Rachel Joyce Scott as some kind of prophet because on the back of her dresser she wrote some emotional stuff about dying. Her brother was brought in to speak about it. They were practically breaking out in prayer. We live about as far away from the place as you can get, so I don’t see the point.
He thinks the dresser drawing were entirely unrelated to the incident. She merely drew the outline of her hand as was emotionally dying or something. Then they used the incident for promoting a Christian storyline. Also a spin was that it was somehow related to bullying, when in fact these guys were just nut cases. He said he did his own research after this propaganda campaign. It would have been better if he had just been given an assignment to research it himself, instead of the indoctrination campaign.
BTW, he came in and I’ve been asking him questions, on the fly.
I remember the same kind of political injection into my English classes also. It sounds much worse now however.
