Man, that's crazy. Even 40 years ago, they should've known more than that about developmentally appropriate behavioral expectations. Certainly the nursery school I went to nearly 30 years ago was very much like Alex's, at least from what I remember. No naptime, though - it was purely a nursery school, with kids attending for a few hours a day, not a nursery school/daycare like Alex's.
I remember being called down in front of the class by Miss June and told that I was a 'bad citizen' for using the wrong colors on the US flag.
Fear and shame certainly do seem to be popular methods for instilling patriotism in the young. When I was a Girl Scout camp counselor, we'd have flag ceremonies to raise the flag every morning and lower it every night. Every week, I would inevitably find myself consoling some hysterical child who had been told by her peers that she was going to go to jail for accidentally letting the flag touch the ground.
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I remember being called down in front of the class by Miss June and told that I was a 'bad citizen' for using the wrong colors on the US flag.
Fear and shame certainly do seem to be popular methods for instilling patriotism in the young. When I was a Girl Scout camp counselor, we'd have flag ceremonies to raise the flag every morning and lower it every night. Every week, I would inevitably find myself consoling some hysterical child who had been told by her peers that she was going to go to jail for accidentally letting the flag touch the ground.