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Actual drama from my fb feed. Mother finds culturally insensitive worksheet in child's schoolwork. Unhappy.

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Sure it's kinda fricked up but I'd rather have my kid come home with this instead of some trans shit lmao

But also Oklahoma has a HUGE Native American population how has this been floating around since 1997

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Is it bad that I think this is a fine exercise? This is a worksheet that's probably part of a bigger curriculum piece on the colonization of America. These people are so r-slurred. 5th graders are vile.

We did a whole Hammurabi's Code for the class for the day and slavery as debt repayment was absolutely one of the rules we came up with!!! We reenacted Ellis Island and they fully "papers pleased" us IRL!

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It would be fine if it was the '90s and they were getting educated at a 5th grade level. But you know today they're being taught that the last 400 years are like a capeshit movie where all the Indians live each other and all the mayos were born evil.

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Idk it says the books are from 97 and I don't have a ton of faith in teachers to do anything more than just teach the book

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I was in school in the 90s and there's no way in heck this would have flown. I went to a shitty public school too, not some kind of uptight private place.

Our education of native americans was obviously slanted to paint them as peace-loving people (not to mention implicitly grouping them all together, as if there wasn't a varied patchwork of different tribes and ethnicities in North America), but no worksheet would ever suggest that simply murdering everyone from a particular race was a possible solution to anything.

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Yes, the whole getting kids to write that they support genocide thing is a bit avant garde.

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It's politically incorrect by contemporary standards but I understand what they're getting at. It's trying to encourage perspective-taking to establish a more well-rounded understanding of the historical event.

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foidmoid???

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u support this because its a learning exercise

i support this because i hate wh*te "people"

we are not the same

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I agree, but they should also have follow up exams that involve consequences based on the choices they picked. For example, every child who picked the option "We should attack the white colonists and turn them into slaves" gets their next quiz thought-exercise to be something like "We tried to attack the white man and turn them into slaves, but their soldiers retaliated and slaughtered half our village. Now they are threatening to genocide us if we don't move onto a reservation that is known for poor crop yield. What do we do?" It could be like a fun little Choose Your Own Adventure where kids learn to optimize for good outcomes instead of doing whatever their r-slurred emotions tell them to.

That way this wouldn't be just an exercise in moral reasoning: kids would also learn that life sometimes involves practical considerations, like whether your tribal political leaders are so r-slurred that they turned your entire military into a joke, making your society easy prey for any outside force that wants to take over

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This is literally one photo of one worksheet. Who knows how the teacher used it or worked it into the curriculum. It can honestly be spun as either pro or anti colonialism.

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True but there are literally no correct choices here. The correct response would be "Form a legally binding peace treaty, not because we like these white devils but because the alternative is extermination for our people. And besides, it's not like we didn't genocide the tribe who got here before us."

But you know, Native Americans egos are so fragile that they just can't handle any accountability for the fact that their own ancestors were every bit as savage and genocidal as the white people were to them. They always play the victim while denying their own vicious warcrimes.

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