Hi Calamity,
It really is frustring when you feel that your child is being taught by simpletons, isn't it?
My recommendation to you would be to probe the intelligence that your son already has about the war...what makes you think the war is over? etc. and try to see within what context his information is framed. We know the war is not over, the men and women who are there still fighting know the war is not over...so when he answers (it may be something like "We were shown a picture of Geo. Bush on a ship with a sign that says 'Mission Accomplished.'") you can ask him follow-up questions, like why do you think the war is over? And so forth. These questions will serve several functions: 1) They will give you an understanding of his knowledge base of the issue and what he is being taught. 2) They will give you some indication of the political ideology of his teachers/school. 3) They will teach your son, implicity, to question his own basis of knowledge and to question what he is intellectually fed by others...teach him to be a critical thinker...
Rhonda
Hi, Rhonda, Glad to see you here. Hope you're
tough enough inclined to stay a while.
Your comments sum up where I am trying to get to with my son. He is an autistic eight year old, quite advanced, beyond believability, in some areas and somewhat hindered in others. We have made progress this week, as much as he is receptive to. Going can be slow and that is what shocked me so - how far he had been taken, before I "clued in" to what was happening.
If it was simpletons I was dealing with, I could just take up the slack from time to time, but they know what they are doing. If I sound paranoid, it's because I am, but with reason.
Thanks for your insights.
