what do you wish your child "really" learned

[Anonymous]

Are there history lessons taught that make you cringe?

What do you wish they learned the true story of or what do you reteach at home?

[Anonymous]

Do you have an example?

[Anonymous]

American history in general just seems under taught. I wish they also taught more classic literature. Loved reading the Hunger Games myself, it should not be taught in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American history in general just seems under taught. I wish they also taught more classic literature. Loved reading the Hunger Games myself, it should not be taught in school.

Colonial History in 4th grade. US history in 6th and 7th grade, Civics in 8th - quite a bit is the Constitution, then another year of US history in 11th and Government in 12th. DC has read Shakespeare, Of Mice and Men, Farenheit 451, Catcher in the Rye..... in English.

What classics are you thinking?

[Anonymous]

I wish she learned real history. Not the Pilgrims/Indians nonsense.

[Anonymous]

American classic standards in music class. Which takes place in ... America.

5th grade DS has no idea what the words are to, say, This Land is Your Land. But he has, no exaggeration!, learned Norwegian folk songs, Jamaican songs, South African Songs, Japanese songs about knitting and rain (WTF?), an atonal song written by a hearing impaired child ... what am I missing? OH! a Russian dance song and a Chinese tune set to the xylophone.

That's all I can remember. It sounds like I'm making this up but I'm not.

It's as if classic American music is the third rail of the current songbook and I think that's bullshit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish she learned real history. Not the Pilgrims/Indians nonsense.

I agree. Same about the plight of African-Americans outside of listening to the "I Had A Dream" speech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American classic standards in music class. Which takes place in ... America.

5th grade DS has no idea what the words are to, say, This Land is Your Land. But he has, no exaggeration!, learned Norwegian folk songs, Jamaican songs, South African Songs, Japanese songs about knitting and rain (WTF?), an atonal song written by a hearing impaired child ... what am I missing? OH! a Russian dance song and a Chinese tune set to the xylophone.

That's all I can remember. It sounds like I'm making this up but I'm not.

It's as if classic American music is the third rail of the current songbook and I think that's bullshit.

Must be the teachers? My dis is learning big band greats in 1st grade. I was impressed.

[Anonymous]

DS, not dis. Stupid iPad.

[Anonymous]

Real history. Not the Whitewashed crap currently taught.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish she learned real history. Not the Pilgrims/Indians nonsense.

Where do you live? We are in VA and there was virtually nothing about Pilgrims. It was all Jamestown. WHen I grew up in MA, it was all Pirlgrims and virtually no Jamestown.

What part of the history being taught regarding Pilgrims and Native Peoples do you consider nonsense?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Real history. Not the Whitewashed crap currently taught.

Can you give concrete examples?

I wish ""x" were taught instead of "y".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American classic standards in music class. Which takes place in ... America.

5th grade DS has no idea what the words are to, say, This Land is Your Land. But he has, no exaggeration!, learned Norwegian folk songs, Jamaican songs, South African Songs, Japanese songs about knitting and rain (WTF?), an atonal song written by a hearing impaired child ... what am I missing? OH! a Russian dance song and a Chinese tune set to the xylophone.

That's all I can remember. It sounds like I'm making this up but I'm not.

It's as if classic American music is the third rail of the current songbook and I think that's bullshit.

Don't you know, "This Land is Your Land" is communist propaganda past the 1st verse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American classic standards in music class. Which takes place in ... America.

5th grade DS has no idea what the words are to, say, This Land is Your Land. But he has, no exaggeration!, learned Norwegian folk songs, Jamaican songs, South African Songs, Japanese songs about knitting and rain (WTF?), an atonal song written by a hearing impaired child ... what am I missing? OH! a Russian dance song and a Chinese tune set to the xylophone.

That's all I can remember. It sounds like I'm making this up but I'm not.

It's as if classic American music is the third rail of the current songbook and I think that's bullshit.

YES. Same at our school. I'm all for learning about other countries and cultures, but shouldn't we learn about our own first? And that includes classic American songs, patriotic, etc. I think it's so sad that my kids aren't learning these classics at school. I've been supplementing at home, but I shouldn't have to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish she learned real history. Not the Pilgrims/Indians nonsense.

AMEN TO THAT