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From: "Nancy M. Dickinson" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #292
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 22:24:19 -0500
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Being an aunt to 10 neices and nephews and having two kids and two stepkids,
all in varying levels of school, it shocks me to hear/see the amount of
misinformation that is passed out by our schools.

One of my nephews, at the time in Middle School, came to me one day to tell
me what his teacher told him about why the United States entered into the
fray during WWII.

Now, my father is a vet of WWII so this one really got to our family.

His teacher told him, along with the rest of the class, that Japan bombed
Pearl Harbor to keep us out of the war. I thought this was ridiculous and
gave my nephew an analogy to show him that, IMO, the teacher was wrong.
When I told my dad about what the teacher had told my nephew, he about blew
a gasket!

I'm involved in a struggle now with a teacher of my 9 year old over her
faulty teaching for his Language Arts class... I graduated from college
with a degree in English at a time when grammer was necessary to get the
degree and when I showed her all of her grammatical errors in the
instructions for three of her tests (all of which my son failed, as a result
of her grammatical errors and typos) she turned it around to be his fault
that he should have KNOWN what she wanted. My husband said I just sat there
and stared at her like she had two heads... But this is the same teacher
who told me that... "All of the other kids have already did their
assignment."

And the powers that be wonder why Johnny can't read...

Nancy M. Dickinson
OHGenWeb Fayette County, OH Webmaster
http://rootsweb.com/~ohfayett
----- Original Message -----
From: "alittlemermaid" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #292


> Although I have lived in Texas for many years, I do not consider myself a
> Texan, but an Eastern Shore girl through and through. However, I must
> provide an interesting story about one of our Eastern Shore teachers from
my
> high schools days.
>
> I had visited my father in San Antonio, Texas a few times prior to moving
> permanently and did the obligatory trip to the Alamo. Upon my return
after
> one Christmas holiday, our history class started studying Texas history.
Of
> course, this included the Battle of the Alamo, that as per our teacher,
was
> fought in Houston. I, of course, was sure to correct him.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 5:48 AM
> Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #292
>
>
> > In a message dated 12/8/03 5:01:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > writes:
> > In the 60's when I was in the Armystationed in TX, I too was asked where
I
> > was from. I replied "Delaware", and they asked what State is that in!
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > You should have said the North East! Texas is much too big to
> > understand that anything smaller could be a state, certainly not
> > Eastern Shore or Mid-Adlantic! In defence of their ignorance of
> > Delaware, the first time I came to spend the summer with my Dad
> > in Ocean City in the late 50's, I was asked, having come from Oklahoma,
> how
> > it was living in a reserveration and when I told them we had television,
> they
> > just were totally shocked and wanted to know where we plugged them in on
> those
> > animal skins.
> > I think different regions of the country tend to isolate themselves and
> some
> > only know what they learn in American History about each state, I
believe.
> > Evidently the Texans missed the day on Delaware. I don't know of an
> excuse for
> > the Marylanders because they were college graduates and should have
> received
> > at least a second dose of history??? Do you suppose that the reason
> > our ancestors are a bit hard to find at times is because they moved and
> the
> > accents and possibly the ignorance of the people they were giving the
> > information to about where they lived before
> > the move could have contributed to all the differences we find?
> > For example: censuses after they have moved on one of my Moore lines
> spell
> > their name More instead of Moore. A Grandmother Catherine Doud on one
> census
> > has birthplace New York and another
> > as Virginia (She was born on a ship between the two according to some
> family
> > members).
> >
> > ______________________________
>
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