Alternative School kids solve the Offensive Statue Problem.

[Woodsman]

This is what happens when you build schools on sanity:

http://www.kingscountynews.ca/community/port-williams-students-propose-creative-solution-for-halifax-cornwallis-statue-175701/

It took children raised in a healthy learning environment to figure out what thousands of traumatized adults couldn't manage with fists and battle cries. Imagine if we were all given an education free of trauma?

 

[Skyfarmr]

Thanks for sharing this Woodsman! Passed along to daughter who's starting her first teaching job, teaching social studies to middle school-ers (6,7,8th grades). What an eloquent lesson! Love it!

"Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. ." Matthew 18: 3

Which could translate to reconnecting with those child-like qualities: 1) Be curious (ASK questions), 2) be courageous (SEEK the Truth/answers), 3) Be bold (KNOCK to open the door to unknown territory)
but... lacking grooved prejudices and stereotypes.

 

[whitecoast]

Thanks for sharing Woodsman. :) I think my favorite part of the article was the statement, "When the statue goes, the conversation goes." Erasing statues isn't very far off from burning books, since they both destroy information about the past.