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Just posted at Street Carnage. Go read it there and inject some civility into those heathens' lives.
I know a thing or two about how hard it can be coming up with creative lesson plans that will challenge children, hold their attention, and actually help them to learn something. I've never tried it myself, mind you, but I'm often sitting there watching TV while my girlfriend is busting her ass all night trying to come up with ways to do it herself. Does that make me an education expert? Hard to say, but I'll leave that up to the judging whether or not something makes someone an expert at something experts out there.
Here's a thing though, via The Week. Is it racist? Well, on the one hand it did happen in Virginia, where I am pretty sure everything that has ever happened could probably be called racist in one way or another. On the other hand, I live in Massachusetts where people like me are a bunch of overly sensitive PC pussies desperate to express our outrage over anything we can.
In a misguided effort to educate students about the horror of Civil War-era America, a fourth-grade teacher in Norfolk, Va., set up a mock slave auction in her classroom...
On April 1, Sewells Point Elementary's Jessica Boyle divided up her classroom and had white 9-year olds "sell" their black and mixed-race counterparts. After parents expressed outrage, principal Mary B. Wrushen sent them a letter on April 6, conceding that the auction was "inappropriate for the students." While it's unclear what the repercussions will be for Boyle — the school only says it is taking "personnel actions" — she is not the first teacher to set up a fake slave auction. Just last month, a teacher in Columbus, Ohio, did the same thing.
What do you think? Is making white kids pretend to sell black kids as slaves over the line, or does its very fucked-upedness actually do a perfect job of illustrating how fucked up slavery was in the first place? Be sure to teach everyone a lesson one way or the other in the comments.
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From the Ohio story: "A district spokesperson says the auction is part of the state’s required curriculum..." That probably requires some explanation.
Oh, the lesson, I forgot. Uh, buying and selling human beings is bad and you shouldn't do it.
Doing it in this fashion probably isn't in the curric but id beleieve anything
That's a fair point. They might want to give the teachers a little less latitude on implementing this topic in the future.
http://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Mass-Instruction-Schoolteachers-Compulsory/dp/0865716315
Give your girlfriend this book and she will know what to teach on Monday.
cool, thanks for the rec
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