I admit I was wary of enrolling my 5-year-old in Plano public schools. Not that the performance isn’t stellar, it’s just I’ve got a problem with the 19th Century model of education Horace Mann imported from Prussia, with its attendant groupthink zeitgeist and conformity factory ways. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how well the school is run overall, and yesterday I found something in her homework package that warmed my heart.
We’ve all heard stories about kids getting suspended or expelled for so much as drawing a picture of a gun or having a cake knife in their car. So it was pleasuresome to see her homework page, which was to paste pictures of words beginning with the letter G on a page. Here’s the page.
Look at the item on the bottom left. It’s a gun. It’s not being treated like something forbidden. In fact, they’ve already had lessons about gun safety, none of which declared guns to be “teh evil” they’re portrayed as in some ISDs.
She’s already 5?? Dang I’m old!