Re: homework booboos

OMG, NightMist!! What the heck??!!!

Yannow, I've never been a conspiracy nut but I'm beginning to feel that way
.... it really, truly seems that everyone's trying to "pretty" up history to
point where it's not even based on reality!!!

When Fidel stepped down the other day, I made a BIG deal over it. I mean,
the guy had been in power longer (and caused us more "grief") than I've been
alive ... so I told my DD about him, we looked him up, and so on. She goes
to school and tells her teacher (thinking she'll get brownie points for
paying attention to the news and BIG events) that Fidel stepped down today.
She said her teacher's reaction was "crickets chirping."

He told her that Cuba isn't on the curriculum and if she's interested in it,
to look it up on her own time. I then spoke to my friend who's a 10th grade
teacher here, and SHE said that Fidel/Cuba's not even taught in high
school!! How can that be????

For us, it's even scarier than if your schools didn't cover it ... we're
only a few hundred miles away! For pete's sake, we have a Little Cuba to
rival Miami's!!

I just really, really, really don't get it. Where in the heck did we go
wrong that we coddle our kids and lie our butts off to'em?? All for the sake
of making history "pretty?"

I grew up with the Pocahontas myth ... and you better believe that when I
went Jamestown as an adult, I was surprised to learn that it was NOT as the
books teach it. In fact, and I'm not making this up, the guide (an actual
descendant of the Powhatan tribe) told a much different story than the
books, movies or even the Jamestown Park itself told (they "skirted" the
truth -- didn't outright LIE, but left certain things very, very vague and
iffy). Shortly thereafter, I bought a book "Lies My Teacher Told Me" and I
was learned a LOT.
--
Connie :-)
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http://sewverycreative.blogspot.com


"NightMist" <nightmiste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I once did an assigned report on Pocahontas in fifth grade.
I was accurate, and even wrote to the Powhatans for info.
They are not enamored of the myth: http://www.powhatan.org/pocc.html

You would have thought I had invited Leonid Brezhnev in to give a talk
on civics.
I should have known better, given previous experience in school. On
some topics the fable or the propaganda is more important than the
facts, at least so far as getting a grade goes.

NightMist

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:27:14 -0800 (PST), Sunny <onetexsun@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Way back in the early '70s, I got in trouble for writing an article
about how medical care in Cuba for poor people improved after Fidel's
revolution, had a little Che' thrown in for good measure. Thought I
was gonna be thrown to the lions.

Sunny

On Mar 6, 2:30 pm, "SewVeryCreative" <sewcreativ...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I got into deep doo-doo when I did a report on the unethical torture
and
treatment afforded prisoners in Turkey for my 10th grade Social
Sciences
class. We were assigned to do a "expose" on atrocities (don't ask me
why)
and I picked my subject because I had just seen "Midnight Express."
--
Connie :-)
FREE patterns n' FREE eZine at my
blog:http://sewverycreative.blogspot.com

"Erin" <museumbi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message


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On 6 Mar, 16:15, nightmi...@xxxxxxxxx (NightMist) wrote:> I prolly
have an FBI file 2 inches thick! And to think my
dad was warning me about that when I ticked him off by doing an
eighth

grade social studies report on Chad.

What was wrong with your choice of Chad for your report?

Erin
(who got in trouble in 9th grade civics class by writing a report on
the Sandinistas)


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