Ann Pelo on the military industrial complex as taught to preschoolers:
According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), which oversees preschool teacher training, curriculum standards, and daycare accreditation, “That’s Not Fair! A Teacher’s Guide to Activism with Young Children” is “an exciting and informative” resource for “developing community-building, deep thinking, and partnership.to change the world for the better.”
On page 106 of the guide, co-author Ann Pelo details an activism project she initiated at a Seattle preschool after her students spotted a Blue Angels rehearsal overhead as they played in a local park. “Those are Navy airplanes,” Pelo lectured the toddlers. “They’re built for war, but right now, there is no war, so the pilots learn how to do fancy tricks in their planes.” The kids returned to playing, but Pelo wouldn’t let it rest. The next day she pushes the children to “communicate their feelings about the Blue Angels.”
Pelo proudly describes her precociously politicized students’ handiwork:
“They drew pictures of planes with Xs through them: ‘This is a crossed-off bombing plane.’ They drew bomb factories labeled: ‘No.’
“Respect our words, Blue Angels. Respect kids’ words. Don’t kill people.”
“If you blow up our city, we won’t be happy about it. And our whole city will be destroyed. And if you blow up my favorite library, I won’t be happy because there are some good books there that I haven’t read yet.”
Pelo reports that the children “poured out their strong feelings about the Blue Angels in their messages and seemed relieved and relaxed.” But it’s obvious this cathartic exercise was less for the children and more for the ax-grinding Pelo, who readily admits that she “didn’t ask for parents’ input about their letter-writing - she didn’t genuinely want it. She felt passionately that they had done the right thing, and she wasn’t interested in hearing otherwise.”
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin041603.asp
Thanks for that companion piece.
I remember a fifth grade teacher I played like a fiddle.
She was very seriously anti “booze.” After lunch, I would
show her an advertisement of people enjoying themselves, having a drink. Say something like, “Isn’t this awful?” She would launch into an hour to hour and a half tirade on the evils of booze, while we avoded having do classwork.
Sounds like these kids have learned the party line, and will be able to manipulate their communist puppet masters when needed.
She is obviously a lunatic.
Maybe Pelo should go teach her thoughts in countries like Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, so we can have world peace.
Mark