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     Kommentar till en text av CAROL SHENKENBERGER
Ärende: Re: sneaky moms!
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Happy Mother's Day Carol!
-> 
-> -> BTW, we are all 'color blind' in echos but I have your standard
American 
-> hn> mixed 
-> -> set and my only African ancestors are 4 generations back (that we
know 
-> hn> of....).
-> -> 
-> -> In an earlier time, I might have been classified as a white looking
black? 
-> -> Perhaps I take more offense to EGB's books over this.  His treatment
of 
-> hn> blacks 
-> -> is that of 'noble animal' and 'almost truely human' (which by his d
-> -> means white skin).
-> -> 
-> -> REadng his books did do one good thing for me though.  It made me
very 
-> hn> happy 
-> -> that I was born in a later more sane time.  Charlotte, born even la
-> -> will not understand 'man of his times' yet she can read Machivelli
and get 
-> hn> that
-> -> 
-> -> point (bit deep for her but she's read a little of it).
-> -> 
-> -> Perhaps though I'm not giving her credit fairly.  She's read every
Jack 
-> hn> London 
-> -> story I have (I lack a few of the nautical ones at home) and can deal
with 
-> hn> his 
-> -> milder expression of prejudice against native indians, perhaps
because 
-> hn> they 
-> -> vary by story as noble in their environment at times.  I am 1/16th
native 
-> -> American so Charlotte is 1/32nd.
-> -> 
-> hn> I think she'd understand more than you imagine. As a military brat
of
-> hn> and 60's I always went to school with kids of all mixes, always
played
-> hn> kids of all sorts of heritages, a true hodge podge of cultures. I
alwa
-> hn> at everyone as my equal and didn't really understand what was going
on
-> hn> the civil rights movement till later when I found out everyone else
wa
-> hn> me (in terms of believeing everyone is just as good as I am). My
famil
-> hn> been in the USA since the early 1600's and some cherokee blood got
add
-> hn> the early 1700's (although that was a family "secret" till the mid
190
-> hn> other than that I am Scotch, Irish, English, and French, and as
common
-> hn> dirt. Burroughs was fiction so I knew it was "pretend" so I guess it
d
-> 
-> Same here.  Many of us are all mixed and we are happier for it. 
Military brats
-> 
-> learn real fast that color is just a description when trying to explain
what a 
-> person looks like to someone who's not seen them.  The only other
relevance is 
-> if you need to borrow sunscreen to keep your skin from getting patches
of color
-> 
-> that are uneven or even unsightly burning red for some of us <g>.
-> 
Yep you hit it exactly. 

-> hn> Going to sea can be a bummer! Perhaps you can make some sort 
-> hn> of "independent study" program with the teacher for over the summer?
H
-> hn> can lay out "lessons" and Charlotte can work through them (with your 
-> hn> guidance) over the summer to end up where she needs to be (or even
ahe
-> hn> of ) with her grade level.
-> 
-> Well, keeping her to grade level is easy if I'm home.  Getting past this 
-> debacle of the grade system with 3 F's in english, isnt so easy.  Lets
hope for
-> 
-> the best.
->                                        xxcarol

Well Don't get too hung up on the "grade", it sounds like Charlotte is
really doing some learning now that you've found an approach that is
working with her, and the learning is the objective not just a letter
grade. The true measuring stick is where she ends up not what bumps she
hits along the way! 
Chat with you soon
ha
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