Go read this, by Matt Langdon on Ari Kohen’s blog, on the subject of heroism and, more broadly, unwillingness to change opinions and what that means for school kids. It’s short but good.
…four years ago at this time, a kindergarten teacher told me her students were chanting, “We want Bush, we want Bush.” Kindergarten kids should not have opinions on the presidential race, yet they did. They had unwavering opinions. It’s why New York City public schools decided to eliminate controversial words from their tests —words like dinosaur, pepperoni, and birthday. Kids shouldn’t find those words controversial. Adults shouldn’t find those words controversial, but again, there’s not much we can do about adults. It’s why a character education speaker was kicked out of a school because she said that war was a sad thing to a classroom of kids.
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