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[RollTide2008]

@porcelain, Ancestry Classroom is a free resource. Again, maybe if we could just refrain from running our mouths before we have the information.

[CelticCrafter]

JMO, Ancestry isn't all that great for trying to find information.  

[lgfan]

@new nickname 4 "I've been a firm proponent for teaching the basics, and making sure that the children are learning them.  Maybe teaching something more by the time they are upper classmen in HS can keep them entertained, but they need to be taught how to survive on their own once they graduate."

I agree with you.  Instead of teaching the ancestry.com teachers should be teaching young people money management.  Many high school graduates are clueless in how to budget their money.  That is why so many people get into trouble with using credit cards and student loans.

[Desert Lily]

Common Core Standards include students writing short research papers in 4th grade, and that's the grade I checked online. So, research may begin earlier.

Organizing research, having a general topic (such as: person they're researching) and subtopics (where the person grew up, education, what important event/discovery was the person part of, etc.), learning how to do a search of facts, using vetted sites, creating a document/product (various media), creating a bibliography, etc. all start in elementary school - not college.

As far as Ancestry being a business: Schools purchase their text books (Macmillan Learning, Pearson, McGraw-Hill, etc.) and programs (Read 180, Reading Plus, etc.) from private industry. The former district I lived in had Google schools from grants. Google didn't tell the schools what to teach; they provided a platform for students to use multimedia in their learning.

I agree with other posters that people make assumptions about things they lack knowledge and facts in.

[Porcelain]

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@RollTide2008 wrote:
@porcelain, Ancestry Classroom is a free resource. Again, maybe if we could just refrain from running our mouths before we have the information.

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I think you're overreacting emotionally to an opinion on a neutral topic. Not sure what your investment is, but I'm not going to bicker with you.

[PuppyLoverBob666]

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@Janey2 wrote:

No. There are lots of reasons why not, but the main reason I see. Is that People who have no reason to gather information about you are now using Ancestry to get information that should be kept private

Well, that's the risk you assume when you sign up for something like Ancestry. And information about you and your family/friends has been available on the internet for a long time, so not participating seems like closing the barn door after the cows have gone out.

One thing I don't like about ancestry, and programs like it, is that one Christian denomination used it to get information about Jews who died in the Holocaust, and went ahead and baptized them by proxy. When word got back to the Jewish authorrities they were -- justifiably -- fit to be tied.

The Christian denomination apologized, said they were sorry for being so insensitive, blah blah blah.

And then they went on doing it again.

[Jacie]

This is absolutely NOT appropriate.

I hope that every parent who has a child in school will take a hard look at the curriculum that is being taught. Recent events, with school administrators hijacking students education, by telling parents to stay out of the way, that their education is none of their business,

would be enough to put the brakes on! 

Whatever Ancestry.com shows is none of a schools business.

[gertrudecloset]

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@liliblu wrote:

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@occasionalrain wrote:

Since parents have the right to opt out if they don't want their child to participate, I don't see a problem in making it available to students who would benefit from it. Classroom history is lacking and boring.  It doesn't have to be dates, significant battles, and generals. How many know that our national anthem was written on a merchant ship in Baltimore harbor during the battle for Fort McHenry?

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How many have read the "The Star Spangled Banner"?  The full poem?

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Thank you!

[gertrudecloset]

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@RollTide2008 wrote:
My son’s 11th grade history class used Ancestry Classroom to do a unit on state and local government history. It had nothing to do with researching anyone’s genealogy.

Please, for the love of humanity, some you need to stop spouting off about things you don’t know anything about.

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@RollTide2008 For the love of individualism, let people/ (families) decide what is best for them.  We don't need one more groputhink siutation in this country.  Family makeup is personal.  

[gertrudecloset]

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@RollTide2008 wrote:
@porcelain, Ancestry Classroom is a free resource. Again, maybe if we could just refrain from running our mouths before we have the information.

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YOU refrain from running your mouth @RollTide2008 .  Speak for yourself and what's best from your life's perspective.  Don't tell me not to run my mouth.  I am against it.  Periodtt.  That won't change cause you ran up in here with disagreement.