WOW! daughter's 6th grade book competition includes book exposing Reagan's horrific foreign policy!

[mod mom]

The book, Tree Girl, is based on the real life experience of a Mayan peasant girl who survives the horrific Mayan genocide in Guatemala in the early 1980s. Vivid accounts of torture, rape, dehumanization and murder of the simple indigenous people by the spanish speaking army of the elites trying to prevent the farmers joining together to sell their crops (ie dangerous communism) are told. The book goes on to tell how the US government was not only aware of what was going on but provided training, helicopters and weapons to the oppressors.

I read the book, which I heard was disturbing before my daughter, not sure if it was appropriate reading for the age group, but after discovering this is what our government allowed to another culture, I feel that my 12 you old should know the truth of what was allowed under Ronald Reagan and his fucking freedom fighters to innocent people including children of another culture.

Other reading selections in this "Battle of the Books" included difficult subjects of conditions on a slave ship, the Emit Till murder, extreme bullying.

Nice to see not all school districts adopting the bullshit agenda of TX!