Controversial Poem Puts 7-Year-Old On Hot Seat

[teena]

Originally posted by Boom_Quack13
Are you implying that children have to be ignorant of their surrounding, their history, and the paradigm of society in order to enjoy her childhood?

No. Not at all. They should be given info in age appropriate chunks.

She is home-schooled. Those children tend to be more advanced, because they have one on one attention, as they learn. They are able to learn at their own pace, which allows them to ask more questions than the child who sits in a class with 25+ other children.

Very true.

We do not know that she is simply regurgitating her parents' beliefs. She may be espousing her own beliefs, based on what she knows about history.

As I have recently learned, (within the past few hours) her parents may have presented the info to her, but she well may have developed her own interpretation of it. So I am now on the fence about her merely repeating what she's been told.

These children have play dates, field trips, proms, dances, and vacations together. They are exposed to more fun and bliss than most of the children who sit in classrooms all day. I'm sure this young lady is having the time of her life. Her childhood is more than likely ideal.

Could respond, but will be completely off topic.