America Disappearing Down Memory Hole of PC Educators

INSIGHT magazine ^ | June 3, 2002 | Don Feder

[homeschool mama]

Gatto bump!

[Osage Orange]

You wrote:

"The same thing happened at my son's school. The school had a high Hispanic population, so every Mexican holiday in the calendar appeared to be acknowledged, taught on, and celebrated. However, when it came to Independence Day, Columbus Day, Memorial Day, and our presidents' birthdays, little if any thing was done. I would ask my son again and again if these holidays were discussed in class. And the answer was alway "no". What really got to me the most however, was that Mexican Independence Day was celebrated, but not the American Independence Day. And this was in a year-round school, so there was not even the excuse that the 4th of July occurred when school was not in session."

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"From the "Village Academic Curriculum" Files:

"We don't want our Hispanic kids, or any kids, to feel like we're teaching a bias approach."

--Angela Miller, social studies curriculum manager for the Houston Independent School District, on changes in the treatment of the Battle of the Alamo to include less "chest thumping" about the fight for Texas independence from Mexico, as that might make recent student immigrants from Mexico "uncomfortable."