Posted on 12/19/2021 5:18:40 PM PST by RandFan
Indeed
I would have rather have them depict the Warsaw Uprising. But that involved guns.
Around ten years ago, I worked in the Pentagon, and our organization had a secretary who was pretty much a nutcase. For about a decade, she’d been quietly working on a bachelor’s degree in education and had finally finished it up. One day, she announced she was leaving (we were thrilled about this announcement). Her new job? She was fixed-up politically in DC with the hiring authority for the school system, and was becoming a second grade teacher.
A decade has passed and it wouldn’t shock me if she was the one inspired to create this Holocaust training scenario.
Boys will love it. Get to play AH, kool man.
Next lesson, Jeff Dahmer and his fascinating hobby.
WTF?!
This reminds me of a scenario from "The Ninth Configuration" (great Stacey Keach film from 1980).
Regards,
My daughter learned about the Holocaust at a very young age - 4th grade I think? I think it was reading the Diary of Anne Frank that got her started and then she became obsessed with it. She gave a book report about it and the other kids said she was making it up.
The teacher assured them that it was true, and they would learn more about it when they were older.
But 3rd grade and doing a reinactment of shootings and burials? That’s just nuts.
Before I comment on this matter I want to supply some background information.
My parents both had the complete lack of foresight to be both Jews and Europeans in 1933. They were the ONLY survivors of their respective families.
I was born in a Displaced Persons camp in Europe after the war. Came to America in 1948. Years later when I saw my “Green Card”, my “Alien Registration Card”, in the space labeled “Country of Origin” was “NONE (DP)”.
But America took me in. Gave me a home, made me a Citizen, provided me my “Country of Origin”, raised me.
I was educated in the United States when the public education system was the envy of the world. I learned about the Constitution at an early age. I revered the Constitution and was raised under it when no one could look through your pockets without a warrant, let alone break your door down!
I was righteously proud of that! I was never, nor am I now, a Conservative. I was, and am now, a Constitutionalist.
This makes me a RADICAL, for in the history of the world there is no political document more radical than the Constitution! Nor any principle more radical than its foundation, that the people of a nation are the primary authority of that nation, and can, and will, govern themselves.
THAT is American Exceptionalism!
As such, let me remind all here that under OUR system of justice, OUR honored way(as battered and corrupted as it has become in practice), ALL accused are presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. Let us not offend that cherished principle that we revere. We’re Americans, not G-Dless liberal democrat scum!
Let us wait for the facts before we pass judgement.
Oh, she was! I had Miss Bennett for second grade. She wasn’t very attractive - bulging eyes and a hairstyle reminiscent of Eunice on Mama’s Family. HOWEVER, a man stopped by one day to hand her something and she threw her arms around his neck and gave him a big ol’ juicy, LINGERING kiss ON THE LIPS in front of us shocked and very sheltered children.
In 3rd grade I painted a picture of a house with a car parked in front of it. My mother hung it up on our living room wall, over the TV.
2 years later when I was in 5th grade, my mother entered my painting in an art contest held in some yacht club somewhere.
My 3rd grade painting won 1st place.
Pretty sure Flash cards learning math & SPELLING were my best 3rd grade items. Knew my A B C’s before I went to first grade-—
NO KINDERGARTEN then.
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