Posted on 06/05/2008 1:00:00 PM PDT by TheDon
It wasn't your typical field trip that Danielle Quinto took her fourth-grade class at Our Community School in North Hills on last week.
Her 25 students - all from lower- to middle-class working families - didn't go to the Los Angeles Zoo or Travel Town.
Instead, they went to see men whom they said scared them, men they thought were dangerous and stole things.
Quinto took her class of 9-year-old children on a field trip to a city-funded, day-labor work site in North Hollywood near a Home Depot.
"It was a little weird taking the kids on a field trip like this, but it turned out to be a teacher's dream," the young, charter school teacher said Monday.
In one hour, she changed misconceptions and eased the fears of 25 children who thought all day laborers were "bad men."
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The idea for Quinto's unique field trip began when she looked at a "what do we think we know" chart her students filled out on day laborers after a lesson on the impact of immigrant and migrant workers on California.
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"I was a little scared because I never went up and talked to a person like that before," Olivas said Monday. "They were really nice, though, and I wasn't scared anymore.
"They told us how really hard they had to work to feed their families, and that they had children our age they missed very much."
Quinto said she watched one man start to cry as he talked about missing his family and trying to earn the money to feed and house them.
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I wish.
What a bunch of left-wing drivel. I’m so glad our government schools are doing this. /s
Well, politically correct field trips like this are ok, apparently. I bet they wouldn’t go to a religious location for a field trip, even if there could be historical or cultural value from it.
Many years ago, when I was in school, we went on a field trip to a monastery. This was a public school field trip to a monastery. I’m sure in today’s climate, such a trip would not be allowed.
Bitch has a bit of an agenda going on here I'd say.
“Higher taxes would allow us to collect more free benefits,” the workers said. /sarcasm
The operative word on your topic is Mosque. Call it a Mosque and it would be allowed.
You didn’t happen to go to school in upstate New York, did you? We did the same thing when I was young and lived in Scotia.
I’m so glad our government schools are doing this.
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This is a charter school.
Please remember that their parents were likely educated in traditional government schools. Looks like the Marxists who have thoroughly controlled our government schools and its curriculum are winning. One or two more generations of this and we will lose all freedom in the voting booth.
Remember. Marxism is our nation’s most serious threat. Schools are its most important weapon.
Next week they will take a trip to the crack area of town the next to the red light district.
Why not they are people too.
IMHO, there's nothing like learning the value of an education. Having spent many a 90+ degree day unloading furniture off a truck, or walking behind a lawnmower, or swinging a shovel/ax/pick/other implement of destruction...by and large, I can say that I prefer to work behind a desk in a nice airconditioned building. It's never too early for these kids to learn the same thing.
However, I wonder what the day laborers thought of, as the teacher brought the kids to stare at them like a zoo exhibit. In their ever-present zeal to show everyone how enlightened they are, Liberals tend to forget that day laborers are people too. Jose, the happy, always-willing-to-oblige, day-laboring gardener, may be quite a different person at his favorite local afterhours watering hole when backed by a few beers and 10 of his best compadres.
Liberal arrogance never ceases to amaze or disgust me.
Or trying to help them choose a career path early. After twelve+ years in the California public school system, would they prefer to be a ditchdigger or roto-rooter man?
I am reminded of the movie “Gremlins”. The looked so cute, warm, and fuzzy...until they weren’t.
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