On a serious note, this is where parents and residents need to get involved in the school curriculum. It's not fair to leave kids to stand up to teachers. About 10 years ago a school invited someone Jewish to educate kids about holocaust in L.A. There was a student there whose parents and relatives actually lived through that time in WW2 and they spoke about their experiences to the kid. The kid became very upset and declared out loud "that's not true" to the defamatory statements about anti-semitism from the Jewish guest in class. The parents had to be called for the kid because the kid was still very upset. I don't know how the parents resolved the issue, I just heard about the blow up as people wanted to help the kid and their family present their own real life experiences as opposed to the educators' sweeping generalizations. I think the kid was brave to do that in class to the 'authority' figures, just one kid against the power.
On a serious note, this is where parents and residents need to get involved in the school curriculum. It's not fair to leave kids to stand up to teachers. About 10 years ago a school invited someone Jewish to educate kids about holocaust in L.A. There was a student there whose parents and relatives actually lived through that time in WW2 and they spoke about their experiences to the kid. The kid became very upset and declared out loud "that's not true" to the defamatory statements about anti-semitism from the Jewish guest in class. The parents had to be called for the kid because the kid was still very upset. I don't know how the parents resolved the issue, I just heard about the blow up as people wanted to help the kid and their family present their own real life experiences as opposed to the educators' sweeping generalizations. I think the kid was brave to do that in class to the 'authority' figures, just one kid against the power.
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