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All is not lost - My daughter's Elementary School
I went to my daughter's Elementary school event last night.
The forth graders have been working on a heritage project since returning from Christmas break. They were each assigned a famous person from Ohio to research and write a report on. The culmination of this project was last night. Each child was required to dress as their assigned person and pretend to be a wax figure in a wax museum. Parents put coins in a cup to bring the wax figure to life. At that point the child would recite their report. The cash raised is going to the class.
There were lots of great reports about many famous Ohioans. Presidents, astronauts, inventors, sports figures and entertainers. In some cases due to class size there were duplicates. My daughter was Ohio State basketball star Katie Smith.
What thrilled me was that there were two little girls dressed up as Annie Oakley. Complete with toy guns. These young ladies gave complete reports of Annie Oakley's life, her stardom as an accomplished shooter. They did a great job.
i spoke with both the teacher and principal and thanked them for including Annie Oakley in the project about famous Ohioans and allowing both the discussion of her firearm skill along with allowing the children to bring a toy firearm into the school building. Both thought it was not only the right thing to do, but honored her as an accomplished woman and someone our children should look up to and inspire to be like.
In today's day of political correctness, blind allegiance to zero tolerance, it was refreshing to see a school do the right thing.
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02-22-2013, 11:50 AM
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That is refreshing to hear.
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02-22-2013, 12:21 PM
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That IS a good thing to hear, especially in this day & age.
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02-22-2013, 12:44 PM
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Annie Oakley was an impressive lady in many respects. Would that she was a role model for girls today instead of celebrity skanks!
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02-22-2013, 05:53 PM
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Kudos to that school and staff for allowing this to happen.
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02-22-2013, 07:34 PM
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School program
Good for your daughter's school.
Side note, Katie Smith is from my hometown and she use to date my younger 2nd cousin. She came to many family events and we all played volleyball together.
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02-22-2013, 07:46 PM
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Annie is a local celebrity around my little slice of NJ, hard to believe a "western show star" at one time lived in Nutley, NJ
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Annie O wouldn't be the first to come to mind but I wish I was there to see the presentation. I'm impressed that 1) They would allow anything to do with guns and 2) that it was done in a positive light.
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Annie O wouldn't be the first to come to mind but that's a great idea and I wish I was there to see the presentation. I'm impressed that 1) They would allow anything to do with guns and 2) that it was done featuring a person that shot for sport and show in a positive light.
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We had a similar event at our local school this year. Dress up as your "hero". No Annie Oakleys....no explorers, no soldiers....every other kids was Barrack or Michelle. There were a coupe of astronauts and some some civil rights figures...but one kid actually dressed as some left wing tree hugger who sat in an an old oak for 2 weeks until they pepper sprayed her out of it.
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Originally Posted by sipowicz
We had a similar event at our local school this year. Dress up as your "hero". No Annie Oakleys....no explorers, no soldiers....every other kids was Barrack or Michelle. There were a coupe of astronauts and some some civil rights figures...but one kid actually dressed as some left wing tree hugger who sat in an an old oak for 2 weeks until they pepper sprayed her out of it.
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With this event, the kids picked or were assigned, a name off of a list. Annie Oakley was already on the list. So she was "approved" by the faculty prior to the event. This is a public school not a private one which is more impressive to me.
There were actually a large variety of folks represented. I got a bit of an education myself.
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02-22-2013, 11:32 PM
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Public School? That is impressive....our public schools doesn't even acknowledge Christopher Columbus anymore...my daughter's highly educated teacher actually explained it to me this way..."he was a bad man."
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I got assigned to report on Cassius Clay in about 4th grade.
Changes, I've seen.
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