Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site trwspp.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trw-unix!trwspp!urban From: urban@trwspp.UUCP Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: early brainwashing Message-ID: <233@trwspp.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Jan-84 12:55:06 EST Article-I.D.: trwspp.233 Posted: Mon Jan 23 12:55:06 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jan-84 10:28:04 EST References: <2040@hplabsb.UUCP> Organization: T R W, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 16 <> >>> As the children were preparing for a game of Farmer-in-the-Dell, >>> one of the little girls asked if she could be first. The teacher said >>> no, because a boy had to be the farmer! This is supposed to be a very >>> progressive playschool. My friend later explained to the teacher and >>> the school's director that not only was it unfair to restrict such >>> participation on the basis of sex, but that women and girls have been >>> farmers for as long as there has been farming! Maybe I'm completely off-base here: isn't the second verse of Farmer-in-the-Dell, "The farmer takes a wife?" "Takes a husband" wouldn't scan. Maybe it isn't brainwashing but just fear of playing revisionist with a traditional verse? Of course, whose idea was it to use Farmer-in-the-Dell anyway? Mike