It's Rosh Hashanah.

[conuly]

Those of my friends who celebrate, of course, have a good holiday and a happy new year. And those who don't, well, enjoy the next two days anyway. Any day is a good day for apples and honey :)

Interestingly, in a tangent from a conversation I'm having with leora right now, I'm quite impressed that the Kindergarten standards for Social Studies in NYC say that by the end of the year your average Kindergarten student should be able to "identify with his or her ethnic background" and there's something in there about being able to identify and enjoy ones traditional celebrations, food, stories, etc.

Perfectly correct, if you ask me - but I wonder, is this something common to most of the country? Or is it only common to areas like NYC, with high immigration?

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[conuly]

LOL. When my sister was in, like, the third or fourth grade, she had an assignment to bring in her family tree "from when your family arrived in America". This is New York, her teacher clearly only expected parents and grandparents, maybe great-grandparents to be on that tree.

Alas for Jenn, our father's family is not from New York. They've been in the US since before the Revolution!

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I remember being reprimanded by my teacher for leaving the date blank for when my grandmother's branch of the family had come to Canada - though she semi-graciously took it back when I informed her that my grandmother was Native.

My other issue with the family tree was that we were supposed to put down all the relatives we knew about, and one set of my grandparents had nine and twelve siblings respectively. I was a little short on horizontal space.

[conuly]

This is when one discreetly lies and claims one has a small family. My mother occasionally brings up that story and wonders aloud why her suggestion of "Just count back three generations and stop, nobody cares" took so long to be heeded.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

That's very good advice. My family tree ended up being very wide but short, given that neither of my parents could name all four of their grandparents.