A Hallmark Christmas movie made me ask Google a question with the answer that broke my heart a little.
How many around my age remember the first time hearing the talltale of Wild Bill Hickok? Mrs. Sneed read it to my 4th grade class. It was one of many American folklore stories we heard. We kids were mesmerized, and our imaginations ran wild!
After “Literature”, we had up with “Art” when we’d have the opportunity to express some of the creativity bubbling n our little heads with the stories.
Let’s be real! Even his fourth graders,, we knew the differences between folklore and nonfiction. At no time were we ever led these stories as factual. Well, not until “History” when we learned about the real Wild Bill sans the folklore.
The movie I’m watching, Onr Starty Christmas” that has the folklore brilliantly intertwined with the contemporary characters’ lives.
Hence, my question to Google about whether or not the folklore is still taught in public schools. this is part of Google’s reply:
“Yes but is taught differently…. Instead of memorizing frontier legends as absolute history, modern elementar students learn to separate the “man from the myth” while analyzing the cultural trends of the era.”.
HA! Evidently the way my teachers did it with the same results wasn’t as good as exactly the same way teachers today do it but only after spending billions of taxpayer dollars to officially standardize what my teachers did with a little bit of common sense.
