A few months ago Aidyn had her first set of school pictures done. They were adorable. She had individual portraits taken and then a picture of both the classes that make up her K-3 class. When we got them we were asking Aidyn who all the kids in the picture were. There was an adorable little girl, who happened to be African-American, in the photo and Aidyn pointed to her and said, "Hey, is she a monkey?" I was horrified! "Who is teaching my child such slanderous racial slurs?" I thought. I was starting to get angry that some teachers at her school were teaching this to the kids.
It turns out that they give the classes names at the school so that 3-year olds can know with ease which class they are in. Aidyn's class is called the "Teddy Bears" and the other class is called the "Monkeys," the latter being the class to which that little girl belonged.
It is so funny how innocently ignorant children are at this age.
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Love this one!- And I happen to be the teacher that 'created' those group names (what was I thinking?!).
For the record, (it just by happenstance turned out this way...) most of the children in the monkey group are known to climb the walls. Aidyn is most appropriately placed in the calm little Teddy Bear group... :)
~Ms. Traci
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