Students attending one preschool in Massachusetts are not allowed to call each other "best friends."
Little Julia attends Pentucket Workshop Preschool in Georgetown. Like many 4-year-olds, she loves her dolls, arts and crafts and she has a best friend.
"She said you know so-and-so, you're my best buddy," Julia's mother, Christine Hartwell, told WBZ-TV. "The teacher told her that she couldn't say that there in school."
"Best friend" is not a term Julia can use at Pentucket Workshop Preschool.
"I think it's ridiculous," Hartwell said. "Children who are 4 years old speak from their heart, so they should be able to call kids anything loving - you're my best friend, you're my best pal."
The school explained to Hartwell that "the term best friend can lead other children to feel excluded," and it can "ultimately lead to the formation of cliques and outsiders," and the school encourages "students to have a wider group of friends."
I gotta say, I'm not surprised. Isn't Massachusetts a particularly left leaning area?
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I gotta say, I'm not surprised. Isn't Massachusetts a particularly left leaning area?
Very much so. And what does this do to kids? Not prepare them for rejection later in life. Believe me, some parents are pulling their kids out of that pre school.
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I know if I had kids entering school now, I'd home school. No way I'd send kids to public school these days.
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Private schools are a choice. Why a parent would pay to send their child there is beyond me.
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On the plus side, we went to Jamestown yesterday with the 4th grade. The tour guide, apparently still a bit "old school", refused to give in to PC and still called the Powhatan tribes "Indians" and the slaves captured from Angola "Africans". One student tried to correct her by asking why she wasn't calling them Native Americans. She said quite sternly, "because they are Indians. They have contacted us here at Jamestown and asked that we call them Indians, not Natives because they were/are Indians." Another answered a question she posed by referencing African Americans and she corrected them as well. The students still looked confused, so I added,"there was no 'America' when the first settlers arrived. America was formed later." I think they got it.
The kids are so brainwashed these days with all this inclusion and PC crap but I'm determined to undo the damage whenever the opportunity arises.
