I think that dealing with parents is going to be one of the hardest things that we have to do as teachers. I wish that we could leave them out of everything, but as a potential parent, I want to have a say in what my child is learning. This is especially true when it comes to morality.
I think that the first Thanksgiving is a moral issue. We try to make it look like we did all this wonderful stuff and everyone loved us (meaning white European settlers), but that is not the truth. And if anything should be important it is the truth.
I realize that we have to break students in gently, but I think that parents need to know that we are trying to make sure that students get a realistic understanding of what has happened in our society while we maintain a sense of patroitism in our students. Now, maybe not everyone agrees with this, but it is my belief that we need to do this to support a realistic view of history and people.
Parents are important, and we need to help them to understand that we can all be on the same side.