Posted on 01/27/2016 5:38:15 AM PST by HomerBohn
A teacher in Minneola, Florida is under fire for a lesson in racism she gave to students returning from the Martin Luther King holiday.
The teacher, who works at a charter school called Minneola Elementary, conducted a social experiment meant to show her children the dangers of discrimination. One problem: The kids are only in the first grade. Second problem: She didn't clear the lesson with administrators. Third problem: She didn't notify parents until after the lesson had taken place. This trio of problems has her in hot water with parents, to say nothing of Principal Sherry Watts.
Watts said that the teacher did not receive authorization to conduct the experiment, which involved separating children by eye color and then giving preferential treatment - candy, hugs - to children with blue eyes and depriving the children with brown eyes.
"The experiment shouldn't have taken place at all. It's not appropriate for first grade," Watts said. "It was not in her lesson plans." While parents said they understood that the teacher probably had good intentions, they sharply disagreed with her methods.
"I think the teacher probably meant, intended good for it, but the only problem with that is that the kids being so young and not understanding the point she was trying to bring across," parent Michael Ruffin said. Another parent, Lychelle Bland, wasn't quite as sympathetic. "It's the craziest thing I've ever heard that a teacher did to teach a child something," Bland said. To be sure, this one-day lesson is unlikely to traumatize these kids to the point where they'll need therapy, but that's not the point. The point is that we're not going to get rid of our societal problems of racism in this way. You think first-graders are harboring all of this discriminatory racism in their hearts? Of course not. This stuff has to be learned, and you can teach it to them in more ways than actually being racist.
You can also teach it to them by making such a big deal about it like this lesson aims to do. How can any generation escape the sins of the last if that's all they hear about? Maybe this teacher performed the experiment with the best of intentions and maybe she didn't. This kind of crap is happening in schools across the country, where administrators and teachers think it's so important to make children "check their privilege". And it's just nonsense. Let's stop passing our racism down to the next generation. Let's let them figure it out on their own. Maybe we can finally end these tiresome social divides if we just stop talking about them.
Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
Let’s conduct an experiment and fire left wing teachers and see if the quality of education improves...
Home School.
this isn’t the first time this experiment has been done. it has been done many times before.
If she hasn’t been relieved of her teaching duty yet, the district is remiss.
We must not longer let these petty Eichmanns get away with explaining their actions by,"I had good intentions" or "it was an inadvertent error", or any other such excuse.
When all the errors, mistakes, and "good" intentions go one way only, it shows bad, very bad, intentions.
Likewise, liberalism is insanity; but some liberals can be intelligent, sane, and not evil. (Although their leaders and intellectuals invariably are evil).
So what is the proper description of the non-evil liberal? I think the distinction is one that I am loathe to apply to a fellow human being. In fact, the Bible (Matthew 5:22) specifically warns against it.
Nevertheless, it is applicable, and should be applied. That word is "Fool".
I have maintained for years that not all liberals are stupid but all liberals are naïve. Being evil may become an addition to my theory.
Perhaps so, but I would need it explained to me.
I spoke to a liberal once regarding excessive violent crime. She told me that if you look at places such as Vermont (considered left-of-center by most I would imagine), that there is little violence crime and therefore liberalism works. When I mentioned places such as Chicago and Detroit, her immediate response was to say “They get guns from right-wing states.” Yes, that is a direct quote. To them, we are to blame for all practices and principles.
It realy is a mental disorder, we keep trying to come up with something else but liberals are not capable of logic when it comes to political questions. They may understand higher math and be quite logical when it comes to technical questions but regarding politics, economics, etc. they are as helpless as babies. What should be as obvious as the rising sun is simply impossible for them to grasp and since they cannot believe that they themselves are in error they go to the default position of saying that anyone who disagrees with their absurdity is evil and stupid.
If their liberal paradise were really so wonderful how could it turn violent simply because guns are available from other states? If someone offers me a great deal on a machine gun I am not going to grab it and kill all my neighbors simply because, even though I am an awful, heterosexual, Southern conservative, I am not that kind of person! Liberals cannot grasp such an idea as that.
Notice, though, that the liberal towns and cities that have low crime rates insulate themselves against the people they are trying to “help”.
Ever hear of a gated community, for example. High prices for real estate help keep out the riff-raff, as do various zoning regulations, etc.
Where is the experiment of actually reading the bible in a public school?
With liberals, the road to hell is usually paved with very bad intentions.
I would have her fired. She obviously hates children and shouldn’t be around them. Lord only knows what she’s gotten away with already and how many she has traumatized.
I seriously disapprove of stupid, mentally ill teachers psychologically manipulating other people’s little children.
If she did this to our family...I would not want to be her. I would be complaining about every move she made for the rest of the year and calling for appointments to discuss her mental issues constantly. I’d get my friends to join in. I know how to handle bully teachers. Had a lot of training in it.
We had a nasty gang of parents on call, too. We figured out what “you either hang together or hang separately” means. And you always make sure the new parents know what happened and what they have to do to protect their children from her. Play it forward. : )
would have been no prob if she would have favored the brown eyes over the blue eyes.
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