Life in an American Fourth Grade
November 22, 2009 by Roberto Santiago
Filed under Culture
Teaching kids how to think in the 21st century!
Life in an American Fourth Grade
Teaching Kids to “Respect Other Views” by Making Them Not Have Any of Their Own
by Barry Rubin of The Rubin Reports
First came the reading list of four books: one about an African-American, one on an Asian- or Hispanic-American, one on a Native American, and one–amazingly enough–a free choice.
Then came the first book read in class on an African-American runner.
By the way, it should be understood that all these readings are not about a group of youngsters from all races, religions, and creeds, playing together while getting along but rather a focus on minorities in isolation rather than as part of the whole big society.
And next came the second book read in class, portraying the “horrors” of Japanese internment in the United States during World War Two.
By this point, my 10-year-old son piped up that he thought internment was necessary as a war-time measure. Whether or not this position is “correct,” it is certainly one that wasn’t going to be made otherwise in that classroom. Click here to read the entire article…
