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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (280958)	3/21/2006 4:42:01 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571061

re: I am curious what you and others think about this scenario. I'm all for exposing kids to all sorts of ideas; all sides. Teaches them to think and make their own decisions. I agree. I guess you must do it with a great deal of effort to give the appearance of neutrality. This teacher may lose his job over this issue. In a grade school class it might have been inappropriate. I don't think at that age kids would even understand those kind of concepts. One of things I've learned is that until they get to middle school, kids have a real hard time honing into conflicting ideologies because of the hidden principles that underly those conflicts. That's why they see things only as good or bad........no gray. In fact, I don't think its until the age of 2-3 that kids even get the concept that something exists when they can not see it. I can remember as kids having ice cream after dinner......my mother would put the ice cream back in the fridge after she got done serving it. My sister who was younger than I would get done with hers and start saying "more, more" etc. I was always stunned when my parents would tell her its all gone and she would simply buy it.....but at that age, she was incapable of believing anything she couldn't see still existed. In some ways its similar to elementary school where kids can't get their heads around a conflict caused by two opposing ideologies. They just can't see the underlying principles that lead up to the conflict. That's what makes kids so dependent on their parents.......they would not have a clue how to function in the world without the assistance of their parents. We are the only species of animal that has offspring so dependent on the parents for so long. ted