The diversity in the audience should be given some consideration. If we want all the students to participate in Thanksgiving, then all the students should be considered in lessons about it.
On that score, it’s not so much what is said, but how it’s said.

Besides, the grade school level has to be a factor.
Even the smallest children can stand a lesson in tolerance. The blood and gore can come later.

I’m just tired of these ‘war’ games. Being in disagreement is not the same as waging war.
And if teaching friendship and tolerance is PC, then bring on teh PC.

She’s also saying that perhaps it’s not such a good idea to teach our youngest children about all the bloody details of historical events.

Her screed dealt with a memo regarding consideration Native American students at Thanksgiving. The “Thanksgiving myths” was for middle school students I believe. How should we treat subjects like WWII and the Civil War, derny the facts to save the little ones? I don’t recall any memos from Seattle dealing with “Injun Massacres”. How does one handle American history around Native American in the Northwest?

acted like it had a loose screw and might be willing to dart in and bite me on the ankle

Hannity is prone to bark; no doubt about that.

Interestingly, once while on the road I got to hear him and someone I consider a total nitwit, but who actually gave a really good account of herself against Hannity. This was in Boston, if I recall, at the 2004 Democratic convention. Hannity was set up broadcasting from it when, of all people, Janeane Garafalo walked by and agreed to talk on Hannity’s show (on the air). I stayed on the radio channel to listen to that. It lasted longer than I expected and at the end of it, Garafalo had definitely done well and survived her “date” with Sean Hannity.

The only other thing related to Hannity I’ll say is that one year he played an April Fool trick, in which he said he had converted to liberalism and promptly argued loudly with conservative callers-in who were disappointed to shocked. Many people didn’t realize it was a joke! I heard this at a later date and I found it to be hilarious. I wish I could find a transcript of it.

On the contrary she’s not saying the “injun’s,” as you inappropriately term them, aren’t upset, she’s saying that perhaps it’s not a good idea to rely solely on the biased historical perspective of the aggrieved groups to teach as “fact.” She’s also saying that perhaps it’s not such a good idea to teach our youngest children about all the bloody details of historical events.

It’s one thing to teach the context and repercussions of the events surrounding Thanksgiving in their totality, it’s quite another to advise teaching staff to use an admittedly and demonstrably one-sided account of dubious historical accuracy.

But maybe that’s just me.

What about the BS from Malkin and the NW version of Drudge taking some memos in Seattle out of context to claim a “War on Thanksgiving”. This is as phony as her Houssein Zorkot non-story. I wonder if Billo will rant about this “war” tonight. This is just as silly as her investigative blogging over counter tops.

Look, I’m all for truthful, historically accurate lessons about Thanksgiving. But the “diversity”-peddlers’ agenda is not about historical accuracy. It’s about guilt-mongering and institutional racism indoctrination. One American Indian teacher struck the right balance last year:

Even American Indians are divided on how to approach a holiday that some believe symbolizes the start of a hostile takeover of their lands.

Chuck Narcho, a member of the Maricopa and Tohono O’odham tribes who works as a substitute teacher in Los Angeles, said younger children should not be burdened with all the gory details of American history.

“If you are going to teach, you need to keep it positive,” he said. “They can learn about the truths when they grow up. Caring, sharing and giving — that is what was originally intended.”

I, for one, agree with the passage Malkin quoted. It’s quite a contrast from the list of “myths” the school system is providing as material for teachers – the authors of the “myths” even recognize their “facts” are based on one researcher working with one native institute. One should at least expect that teaching materials at least be vetted and consistent with the totality of historical knowledge.

Certainly schools and teachers must be sensitive to how different populations view historical events differently and take care not to offend, but the material provided for teachers will do just the opposite.

As for Malkin

She’s simply less deliberately controversial and offensive than Ann Coulter. Plenty of us don’t pay attention to either of them (or to Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.) simply because we don’t adhere to the liberal line on every issue.

PC is definitely a problem. When I was living in Maryland, some play-pen activists tried to get the state’s anthem changed because the anthem to them is too pro-Confederacy for their taste. This continues to be a pet gripe of some today. (And you’re probably aware of the well-earned reputation of Montgomery County, which is where I lived.)