More school craziness

Joanne Jacobs has a couple recent posts about crazy things happening in public schools:

She posts about an effort to teach California students about the history of India. This seems like a good thing. There are a lot of Indians in California. It helps to know your history, and it helps to know the history of your friends and neighbors. Unfortunately it is starting to look like this effort is evolving into a James Frey version of history with fictional account of the history of India. The Christian Science Monitor reports that several groups are trying to change textbooks in an effort to boost national pride.

Joanne found an article about a London school which banned students from raising their hands. The thought is those who don’t raise their hands were feeling bad. And we all know that you never want to hurt someone's feelings.