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1.0 out of 5 stars
I wanted to rate this book "0" stars!, April 16, 2003
By A Customer
This review is from: That's Not Fair!: A Teacher's Guide to Activism with Young Children (Paperback)
I believe Michelle Malkin describes this book well when she writes;
"Ann Pelo details an activism project she initiated at a Seattle preschool after her students spotted a Blue Angels rehearsal overhead as they played in a local park. "Those are Navy airplanes," Pelo lectured the toddlers. "They're built for war, but right now, there is no war, so the pilots learn how to do fancy tricks in their planes." The kids returned to playing, but Pelo wouldn't let it rest. The next day she pushes the children to "communicate their feelings about the Blue Angels."
Pelo proudly describes her precociously politicized students' handiwork:
"They drew pictures of planes with Xs through them: 'This is a crossed-off bombing plane.' They drew bomb factories labeled: 'No.'
"Respect our words, Blue Angels. Respect kids' words. Don't kill people."
"If you blow up our city, we won't be happy about it. And our whole city will be destroyed. And if you blow up my favorite library, I won't be happy because there are some good books there that I haven't read yet."
Pelo reports that the children "poured out their strong feelings about the Blue Angels in their messages and seemed relieved and relaxed." But it's obvious this cathartic exercise was less for the children and more for the ax-grinding Pelo, who readily admits that she "didn't ask for parents' input about their letter-writing - she didn't genuinely want it. She felt passionately that they had done the right thing, and she wasn't interested in hearing otherwise."
So much for "community-building, deep thinking, and partnership." "
This is not what I expected from this book. Nor do I believe that toddler's should be brainwashed with left or right activisim. That is most definitely WRONG
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More Liberal tripe., July 22, 2008
This review is from: That's Not Fair!: A Teacher's Guide to Activism with Young Children (Paperback)
Wish I could give it no stars. It's no wonder Ann Pelo made Bernard Goldberg's "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America."
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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Vapid anti-American poison for toddlers, April 16, 2003
This review is from: That's Not Fair!: A Teacher's Guide to Activism with Young Children (Paperback)
The "Blue Angels Project" contained within this anti-establishment propaganda piece details how co-author Ann Pelo proudly misled preschool students into thinking that the U. S. Navy precision flight team, the Blue Angels, would bomb U. S. cities. She details what one child wrote: "If you blow up our city, we won't be happy about it. And our whole city will be destroyed. And if you blow up my favorite library, I won't be happy because there are some good books there that I haven't read yet." Ms. Pelo is welcome to her point of view, but her inflicting it upon young children in this manner in deplorable.
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