Have to agree to disagree because I think this reasoning is crazy. No one picture can ever represent an entire people or culture... so do we need to do away with all pictures in books? Can't have a picture of a woman or men will have their feelings hurt bc someone might think it favors women. Can't have a picture of a Frenchman in a beret because someone might incorrectly assume that everyone in France wears a beret. I don't understand how, as an educator, you wouldn't see the value of using these as teaching moments, instead of trying to cancel history and anything that might let children learn about differences and thinking through the things they see and experience in their lives.
Have to agree to disagree because I think this reasoning is crazy. No one picture can ever represent an entire people or culture... so do we need to do away with all pictures in books? Can't have a picture of a woman or men will have their feelings hurt bc someone might think it favors women. Can't have a picture of a Frenchman in a beret because someone might incorrectly assume that everyone in France wears a beret. I don't understand how, as an educator, you wouldn't see the value of using these as teaching moments, instead of trying to cancel history and anything that might let children learn about differences and thinking through the things they see and experience in their lives.