On Thursday, Kieran "graduated" from preschool. I put that in quotes because you don't actually graduate from preschool, but they made a big to-do about it anyway
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I was reading the first part and agreeing, but thinking not that big a deal then I saw the pic. Seriously, a full formal dress event? I completly agree with you.
However on the flip side, the pic is totally adorable and it does make a wonder shot to send to relatives. :)
Go Kieran. Way to stand when others falter. I totally agree with you on the rest.
Zoe had a very brief ceremony for her 8th grade graduation last week. Every student got an award. Granted, it's a day treatment program for troubled kids. It's a triumph for some of those kids to be in school at ALL. But still, some of the awards were pretty sad. It was like they had trouble trying to find a reason to honor some of them. I think we could have skipped the pomp and just gone with the circumstance.
I doubt Zoe will find a use for the colored paper xerox announcing that she's "Beautifully Bold" for her self-confidence and independent sense of style. If she needed the paper to tell her she was like that, she wouldn't have gotten the award at all.
I think that having a ceremony for troubled kids is okay. Kids who have lost their way can always use extra encouragement, so I think that's a bit of a different situation. I definitely don't think it's appropriate for kids just starting out.
I probably didn't make it clear on the black Pilgrim thing. It wasn't a photograph of kids dressing up. It was a cartoon depiction of what was supposed to be Thanksgiving among the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
Depicting a black Pilgrim is historically inaccurate. I don't want my children to think that whites and blacks hung out together all those years ago. I want them to know that blacks weren't welcome at the dinner table unless they were serving it. I want them to know how much strife and inequality minority groups had to go through--and are still going through--in order to be considered equal. I don't believe in stories to make people feel good. I want them to know the truth, because history has a tendency to repeat itself, and knowledge is power.
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I was reading the first part and agreeing, but thinking not that big a deal then I saw the pic. Seriously, a full formal dress event? I completly agree with you.
However on the flip side, the pic is totally adorable and it does make a wonder shot to send to relatives. :)
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Zoe had a very brief ceremony for her 8th grade graduation last week. Every student got an award. Granted, it's a day treatment program for troubled kids. It's a triumph for some of those kids to be in school at ALL. But still, some of the awards were pretty sad. It was like they had trouble trying to find a reason to honor some of them. I think we could have skipped the pomp and just gone with the circumstance.
I doubt Zoe will find a use for the colored paper xerox announcing that she's "Beautifully Bold" for her self-confidence and independent sense of style. If she needed the paper to tell her she was like that, she wouldn't have gotten the award at all.
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Depicting a black Pilgrim is historically inaccurate. I don't want my children to think that whites and blacks hung out together all those years ago. I want them to know that blacks weren't welcome at the dinner table unless they were serving it. I want them to know how much strife and inequality minority groups had to go through--and are still going through--in order to be considered equal. I don't believe in stories to make people feel good. I want them to know the truth, because history has a tendency to repeat itself, and knowledge is power.
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