Parents of a sixth grade student at the Milam Elementary School in Tupelo, Mississippi were shocked when their daughter brought home a political beliefs worksheet that teachers told students to fill out.
The in-class assignment entitled “Are you a Democrat or Republican?” was posted to the “Stop Common Core in Mississippi” Facebook page with a message alleging that the young female student was told not to talk about or take the assignment outside of class, although some parents refute the claim.
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Many parents not only found the assignment highly inappropriate, but question if the assignment was an attempt to gauge families’ political affiliations given the fact that many sixth graders would likely repeat what they heard at home, not having a true personal understanding of the listed topics.
I can see the other side of this argument in helping students realize their political affiliation early in life. Helping them figure out where their beliefs stand in comparison to others. What bothers me is... where are the Libertarian choices, where are the Green choices?
Also why do schools need to know this about students, seems kind of like a manner in which we can start pigeonholing a whole slew of political beliefs in to a dichotomy of this or that.
"You are either one or the other and we need to know which one"
I do not want to send my daughter to public school, I will not. But to a certain degree I want to just to get physical copies of crap like this that I can then post online to share with the world as well.
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