Teaching Thanksgiving In a Different Perspective

Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he "discovered" them.
The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry, want their things back and begin rioting.
Morgan is among elementary school teachers who have ditched the traditional Thanksgiving lesson, in which children dress up like Indians and Pilgrims and act out a romanticized version of their first meetings.
He has replaced it with a more realistic look at the complex relationship between Indians and white settlers.

Morgan is able to trace his genealogy back to John Smith and Pocahontas, two of the most famous people in the 'New World' settling.

"I wanted to get these damn kids to understand what these so called 'Indians' went through during the time when the white man made his first appearance in North America. It seems like all people want to do is eat and forget about the real history that happened long ago" exclaimed Morgan while he did a line of cocaine off a paper Pilgrim hat.

Many have called this form of teaching extreme and have been pushing for a ban on Thanksgiving celebration. Mary Clarkson, member of PTA board in Nashville, Tennessee; is one of the outspoken members of the celebration feast that takes place on the 23rd of November in the United States.

"We don't need to be celebrating this devil hoiday, but rather drowing ourselves in sorrow and begging for forgiveness from our sins. When the white man first came, they ravaged our livestock, burned our villages and laid waste to our crops. We were devastated and had no hope of survival" proclaimed Clarkson behind the bars of Nashville's insane asylum.

Next year Bill Morgan is planning another interesting way to teach his young students about the evils of America's gluttony holiday. He has already reserved a 67 acre plot of land deep within the red wood forests of California where his third graders will spend 2 months straight.

"The goal here is to put these little bastards in the wilderness all by themselves for 60 days and see what they can learn from it. There will be no communication with the outer world and no help or supervision."

It was widely believed that this tacict has been tried before and has yielded the following: