Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Age or Ability Specific Forums Elementary School Wrong on so many levels!

I'm still pondering this. I don't know how I would say it without sounding all accusatory. Being friendly and diplomatic when someone is wrong is not my forte.

Oh, and I could write a whole treatise about the word "caveman."

1) Which hominins are we talking about? Australopithecus? Earlier species of homo (perhaps neandertals)? Prehistoric modern humans?

2) Whichever, most of them didn't live in caves.

3) Cave-man? Really?

Surely it is the teacher's job to check anything (or design it) presented by volunteers? I would talk to the teacher. Say that she might not know but... And that it concerns you when your child comes home with things that are so inaccurate. It is possible the teacher will be offended but she might take the 'out' of letting you assume she had been too busy to notice.

If there are religous arguements there are many better examples of food chains anyway. Why use that one? Or were the actually trying to study pre-history?