Why my kindergartner won?t be dressing up as a Native for Thanksgiving
I took one look at the note the teacher sent home last week and sighed. It outlined the upcoming Thanksgiving event for the kindergarten class and stated that each student was expected to dress up. My daughter was assigned to dress up as a native, complete with a feather headband and a beaded necklace. Now, I?m not OK with having my blonde, blue-eyed daughter of European descent wearing a stereotype of someone else?s race and culture as a costume. But I had no idea what I should do next.
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Should she go to the event, but not dress up" Should she stay home from school" Do I write a letter to the newspaper" Do I dress her as a pilgrim instead" Do I ask the teacher if it should be a Patuxet costume or Pokanoket costume, in order to subtly point out that they are erasing the differences between hundreds of native tribes" How do I explain to a five-year-old why she?s going to do something different" Letting her dress up was out of the question. But how do I protect my daughter from exclusion, isolation or retribution at school while still doing something that approaches ?the right thing?"
I immediately texted friends and family fo...
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