Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he "discovered" them.
The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their things back.
Morgan is among elementary school teachers who have ditched the traditional Thanksgiving lesson, in which children dress up like Indians and Pilgrims and act out a romanticized version of their first meetings.
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This is our first "non-thanksgiving" Thanksgiving. It's not that we don't like the concept of gathering with loved ones and getting the day off from work, we don't like the "forced" feeling to the "holiday". So this year we're making every effort to skip it.
