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Curriculum controversy: War-oriented textbooks green-lighted

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    Appropriate lesson for third-graders?

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Talk about trouble with our schools many parents in New York are now up in arms this morning over planned to teach third graders about war.

School leaders have approved curriculum from a scary new book that illustrates graphic -- means abductions guys with guns and other things that aren't meant for children.

Many feel.

Especially if they are as young as third grade.

Marine centauri is a former New York City public school -- she's written two books about the 9/11 attacks after her son Christopher lost his life that -- -- good morning well what do you think about these new books and a comment gonna come out they some pretty scary.

That they they they are skinny and you know I I think there's an age appropriate in this.

To these books and third to fifth -- is not the age appropriate.

You know time.

You need to prepare children to.

To know about the -- -- -- of life an ample warm and and you can't just think to check these books without doing you know a background.

You know I -- one of them is the library -- a boss or.

They show.

Among the books they show fighter planes dropped dropping bombs on people somebody's seeing who among us will -- Now I went and what's your take on this the school chancellor says.

This is stuff kids see anyway he says we want our children to be able to talk and read about complex things that impact on their real lives television the Internet.

Our children see things now on a regular basis.

And it's a school system we have responsibility and make sure that they have an opportunity do you discuss these things according to chancellor wall cut -- think about -- -- I.

I think that you know if you talking about in junior high school or high school -- absolutely.

You know have the ability and they -- things and but in the third grade and the fourth grade and fifth grade children they're still you know undo.

Strange you know -- supervision of their parents.

And they don't necessarily always have the opportunity to witness all of these things on TV because their parents protect.

Them absolutely and if you introduce a scary things too it's too early to a kid they're going to be word is that is that gonna happen to me.

Marines inter we thank you very much for -- very very welcome about this -- thing.

Right now we're gonna take --

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