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LibertyLover

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16. By the time I was in 6th grade

Reply to herding cats (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 10:03 AM

Oct 2014

I'd read a lot of British history, including a fair amount on the Tudors - you know, Henry VIII -divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived? Not to mention all the ancillary beheadings and executions during that period that were easily as bad as the IS beheadings for poor technique and effectiveness. Read the account of the execution of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury. It wasn't for nothing that Ann Boleyn requested to be beheaded by a swordsman from France.

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Texas Sixth Graders Being Taught About Beheadings [View all] herding cats Oct 2014 OP

I think sixth graders are generally mature enough to be taught about such current events. Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #1

Some equipment they took when the Iraqi army cut and ran scarystuffyo Oct 2014 #2

Speaking of beheadings bluestateguy Oct 2014 #3

I love the part that ISIS has a state b/c they have their own flag. Demit Oct 2014 #4

But, do you have a FLAG? Electric Monk Oct 2014 #5

Hahahahaha! Never saw that. Demit Oct 2014 #10

That is a news story taken for a classroom exercise in reading comprehension/analysis Yo_Mama Oct 2014 #6

I think it is a comprehensive report w/o propaganda. Quite surprising it came from Texas education Hestia Oct 2014 #7

kids have been learning about beheadings forever justabob Oct 2014 #8

In the sixth grade, I read the MineralMan Oct 2014 #9

Soon sixth graders will ask, "what's a newspaper?" aikoaiko Oct 2014 #15

And I'll be very sad about that. MineralMan Oct 2014 #17

Me, too. As a kid I modeled my father who read the morning and evening papers. aikoaiko Oct 2014 #18

What teacher spent all that time creating that document about ISIS, LWolf Oct 2014 #11

that's a fail re funding. ISIS is largely self-funding cali Oct 2014 #12

It beats teaching that a 7th century madman swordsman was a saint and should be followed seveneyes Oct 2014 #13

I think 6th graders are plenty old enough to learn about current events gollygee Oct 2014 #14

By the time I was in 6th grade LibertyLover Oct 2014 #16