The next time you think that schools know what is best for kids please remember the boarding/residential schools... Their goals are not always aligned with ours and history has shown this time and time again.

https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/indian-boarding-schools.html

#nativeamerican

@Museek Residential “schools” in Canada they were never intended to be schools in the true sense of the word - they were the exact opposite in that their intent was to strip knowledge and culture, language and agency from the #indigenous children, not teach or foster it. Only religious (esp ev xtian) schools do that now. Our public schools do not. (At least until the lying rwnj infiltrate boards.)

@prairiecelt i see a lot of parallels, as someone who is a native american parent.. with a young one in public school.

it's certainly far from ideal..
I see the same old problems in the curriculum that there have always been. I see a genuine lack of understanding on a fundamental level that Native Americans are still here and of any native history or culture.

I see a lack of awareness around issues and i see racism.

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@prairiecelt

on Friday the kids told me about a teacher. It is Mexican Independence month and the teacher told the kids just to draw pictures of tacos.

Later, the same teaacher was asked by a student of Mexican descent about what Mexican agriculture meant...

the response was "The job your dad does"