Yesterday during my daughters 6th grade history class the teacher put a slide on the screen that had 2 photos. One of the photos was of the riots in Ferguson, rioters are running away from tear gas as police were chasing them down. The other photo was the widely circulated viral picture of the capitol police officer taking a selfie with people who had just gotten into the rotunda at the capitol building. The teacher asked the students to identify what was different between the 2 pictures.

This got my daughter pretty upset, we are politically open with our kids and over the past year we have had many discussions about the riots as we watched the live streams play out in real time every night. My daughter spoke up and said, these pictures are propaganda, people were tear gassed at the capitol too, at which point her teacher said that's not true.

At that point I had had enough and took the tablet from my daughter and spoke up:

Excuse me, what is the point of this lesson?

This is a perspective exercise was the reply from the instructor.

Perspective exercise? How is this a perspective exercise, you are literally displaying BLM and Antifa propaganda disguised as a teaching moment was my reply. Another adult female teacher in the virtual class audibly exclaimed 'oh no'

Oh no is right, I said, why are you discussing events at the capitol as fact when there has not even been a conclusion to the investigation on what occurred there, and then you claimed to my daughter that what she witnessed with her own eyes during the live streams by people WHO WERE ACTUALLY THERE was untrue. Your claim that there were not anti-riot munitions deployed at the capitol is not true is a bald faced lie, there are hundreds of videos and photos documenting the event.

The teacher then asked me to call him and provided his number.

I gave him a call and had a 30 minute discussion about how inappropriate it was using literal anti-government propaganda and imagery lifted right off BLM and Antifa websites and social media as a learning tool.

I got all the same excuses and a 'commitment to be more sensitive to my concerns' in the future, but honestly nothing of value came out of the conversation. I asked for a number to call to discuss this more with administrators, I was promised I would get a call back today from the district supervisor, I will see if that call ever happens.

Parents, our children are already being told what to think about the events at the capitol by their marxist indoctrinators and I would advise you to beat them to the punch. My suspicion is if they are doing this in 6th grade, its happening even in the lower grades, our young children have impressionable minds, if you are not helping shape them, someone else is and you may find out after it is too late that your kids are going to turn you in for wrong think because thats what they have been conditioned to do.

A warning.