While a simple school worksheet may seem innocent enough, one parent decided to rewrite the assignment, changing the narrative from a negative experience of a mother returning to work to a positive one.
Lynne Polvino was helping her 6-year-old daughter Hazel with her homework last week when she noticed something troubling with the assignment, an unfortunate and increasingly common problem thanks to outdated curriculums. So, Polvino decided to make some changes to the assignment with an updated narrative.
The worksheet is a fill-in-the-blank style assignment which follows a story of a mother returning to work. The first line reads, “Lisa was not happy. Her mother was back at work.” Read more…
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