Teachers: lying to me est. 1994

     Teachers should be expected to tell the truth. When we're little we put faith in these people and willingly believe anything they say, but sadly we were taken advantage of and were fed lies. At first they might seem innocent, like the fact that in first grade I was told that Indians and Pilgrims all sat down together and had the first Thanksgiving. How nice that they could be friends and eat together making conversation. Then we would split the class up into Indians and Pilgrims and make headdresses and hats and shoes with buckles, what a good way to teach first graders, right? WRONG. You couldn't get more historically inaccurate than that. How could Pilgrims and Indians dine happily together, if they couldn't even speak the same language? Further more, there were tensions between Pilgrims and Indians because of philosophical differences over the land, and the tribe living near the Pilgrims declined because of disease. Now you realize there's no way they ate together like one big happy family. 

     And so, because of these lies I was told when I was little, I carried them with me throughout middle school believing that I held the truth. If teachers think that we are too young to process the truth, then they should wait to tell us the real facts, they at least owe us that. They shouldn't just lie and make things up because they think we'll understand the lying version better, because when we grow up teachers either forget or don't bother to correct these lies. Then when you finally find out the real version, you feel like everything else you've been told was made up too. You finally realize that teachers, instead of teaching the truth, they LIE. Everyone deserves to find out the truth, but sadly, we can't even depend on our teachers to help us.