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
@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.)
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"
@prairiecelt Anyway, my bringing this up is meant to remind people of the problems our ancestors experienced and the fallout from which we still experience today.. it's an imprtant reminder..
@Museek I'm ashamed to say that the last RS closed in 1997 when I was 37. I knew nothing about them until about 2008 when there was an official apology and then again when my daughter began learning about them in school. In our (settler Cdn) case it was willful blindness and racism - I think the US's chronic underfunding of schools factors in also. #EveryChildMatters #SearchTheLandfill ☮️
@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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