The school's parent chat is lit this morning

Cause they sent a picture of a few kids (mine included) wearing an "native American feather headdress". It only has like 3 feathers. Now some parents are discussing about the insensitivity of it...which I agree to some point, but given that they're 8 year olds, Im a bit more forgiving about it.

The worst part though was that it wasnt even a school project, but some parent that provided these to the kids for the turkey race.

It was probably just a parent who wore those when they were little. I know that happened when I was a kid.

Boy, am I glad that the app for my son's school does not let people comment on things. You're just asking for trouble with allowing that feature.

How many feathers make it not ok?

Fucking Karens.

teach the children why its not ok to do this

Better to teach than to judge.

wrestlerman posted...

How many feathers make it not ok?

each feather makes it 10% more offensive. Seriously though, a headfull wouldve been definitely not okay and the school wouldve most likely intervened (more progressive private school). I imagine the principal is not likely to be a fan of them as it is.

AceMos posted...

teach the children why its not ok to do this

It 8 y/o mature enough to teach about genocide though? My kid learned about Hitler on second grade by another student and he had an extreme reaction screaming that Germany was evil while also crying.

Of course, they told us to just teach him in a more "macro version" of the events and skip the more intense details.

you dont have to discuss genocide to say "this is hurtful to other people it represents a misunderstanding over other peoples culture"

Are any of the complainers Native American?

From all I've seen they're not easily offended by shit like that. Many of them still call themselves "Indians" and aren't offended by the names of certain sports teams.

When I was a kid my grandfather used to take us to "pow wows" where little white kids would run around in headdresses sold to them by the tribe.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

It 8 y/o mature enough to teach about genocide though? My kid learned about Hitler on second grade by another student and he had an extreme reaction screaming that Germany was evil while also crying.

Of course, they told us to just teach him in a more "macro version" of the events and skip the more intense details.

School seems misguided. Should be less about dates and names and more about how bad situations begin and progress, what could be done instead, and how to prevent bad cycles from starting, or how to stop them once they do start before they can develop into something that demands an armed intervention.

It certainly did seem like the lesson they were teaching was that Germany is a country of evil monsters, but we're the good guys and we won, so take pride in that. Rather, the real lesson to take home was that evil, given the proper conditions, can take root anywhere, in anyone, at any time, and that we must be mindful and vigilant not just of other people, but of ourselves, not to perpetuate the kinds of conditions that can lead to that kind of thing happening again.

totalnerdken posted...

I feel like I should hear how the complaint was made.

Because if it's someone saying "hey, these are only 8 year olds, so not a big deal. But it's important they understand why this is a problem."

Like, along the lines of that, I think is fine to say, and probably should be said.

But if it's like "OMFG, HOW DARE THESE KIDS DO THIS* like a Karen. Then, I mean, probably still have the discussion with the kids, but also, go tell Karen she can stfu.

Yeah, I agree. You can gently have a discussion with kids since they almost certainly mean no harm.

Shadowbird_RH posted...

School seems misguided. Should be less about dates and names and more about how bad situations begin and progress, what could be done instead, and how to prevent bad cycles from starting, or how to stop them once they do start before they can develop into something that demands an armed intervention.

It certainly did seem like the lesson they were teaching was that Germany is a country of evil monsters, but we're the good guys and we won, so take pride in that. Rather, the real lesson to take home was that evil, given the proper conditions, can take root anywhere, in anyone, at any time, and that we must be mindful and vigilant not just of other people, but of ourselves, not to perpetuate the kinds of conditions that can lead to that kind of thing happening again.

It wasnt the school, but another kid who told him about Hitler. Guess he overheard his parents talking about it when Trump won.