bigdaddy2003;699679 wrote:This is a non story but I imagine Reverend Al will be there before no time.

Fab4Runner;699678 wrote:In sixth grade we had a lesson very similar to the one in this story but it was about the Holocaust and Jews. Four students were chosen at random (I was one of them) and we wore yellow dots on our clothes the enitre week at school. We had to sit at a seperate lunch table, could not go to the gym after lunch to participate in the activities, had to sit by ourselves in all of our classes and other similar things. It was actually a really good learning experience and a great lesson. While it was primarily about the Holocaust, we also got the perspective of regular students in our class that were teased, bullied and/or outcasts.

september63;699681 wrote:In this time of lawsuits a teacher couldnt get away with this in the classroom.

Fab4Runner;699678 wrote:In sixth grade we had a lesson very similar to the one in this story but it was about the Holocaust and Jews. Four students were chosen at random (I was one of them) and we wore yellow dots on our clothes the enitre week at school. We had to sit at a seperate lunch table, could not go to the gym after lunch to participate in the activities, had to sit by ourselves in all of our classes and other similar things. It was actually a really good learning experience and a great lesson. While it was primarily about the Holocaust, we also got the perspective of regular students in our class that were teased, bullied and/or outcasts.

password;699617 wrote:Never said all black people.You should read it again and see where I said some.Let me guess and say that you must have had some great,great,great uncle that had a great ,great grandmother that knew a guy who had a 3rd cousin that married a guy that knew a guy that had been told that he had a great aunt that dated a guy who knew a slave from Tupelo who worked in a bakery.

ytownfootball;699565 wrote:The whole exercise is just plain stupid...look how much time was wasted on it in some cases, but we hear complaints of how badly we suck ass globally in math and science. Should we also have a Hitler/Jew lesson too? Ride a train and walk to the chamber?

It's bullshit.

Fab4Runner;699683 wrote:Probably not. Well maybe in my school system....to this day you don't hear about whiny parents complaining to teachers, etc. Kids don't talk back, there are rarely fights. I feel lucky that I went to school where I did when I heard some of the stories from larger districts.

Either way I think it was a worthwhile lesson and am glad I participated.

Buckeyechick;699728 wrote:I joke with you not my daughter's 5th grade teacher had a "sleep over" party one weekend at another student's house where they hid in a dark room and pretended to give the kids an "Anne Frank" experience. They ate German food that night, watched the movie Anne Frank and then pretended what it would be like to have been her. My daughter did not end up going because I was uncomfortable with the amount of supervision and anyway her teacher, well he kind of wigs me out.

4cards;699604 wrote:...sounds like a dumb exercise by the teacher to begin with.

Maybe next week she can separate the boys and girls into "pimps and whores" .

password;699496 wrote:"They looked in their mouth to see who had stronger teeth. And whoever was the strongest that's who they sold first."

mella;699757 wrote:4 cards, That is so stupid. Really, everyone knows that next week all the kids are divided into Chinese and Irish and told to to build a railroad from one end of the play graound to the other. Pimps and Whores is the month of February.

Fab4Runner;699678 wrote:In sixth grade we had a lesson very similar to the one in this story but it was about the Holocaust and Jews. Four students were chosen at random (I was one of them) and we wore yellow dots on our clothes the enitre week at school. We had to sit at a seperate lunch table, could not go to the gym after lunch to participate in the activities, had to sit by ourselves in all of our classes and other similar things. It was actually a really good learning experience and a great lesson. While it was primarily about the Holocaust, we also got the perspective of regular students in our class that were teased, bullied and/or outcasts.

gut;699651 wrote:There's a lot wrong with this exercise, one black kid being a slave and one being an owner is not part of what's wrong, though. To me the most flooring thing is a teacher advocating and allowing 5th graders to "squeeze muscles". That's a disaster waiting to happen as soon as one student touches another inappropriately.

Like most other professions, there are some incredibly stupid people that teach.

password;699496 wrote:Here is a quote from the Columbus Dispatch as told by the child and his mother.


"At first, I didn't care," he said. "But after people were bidding on people, it kind of made me a little mad and stuff."

He said he became even angrier when students playing prospective buyers were told to feel the muscles of the students playing slaves.

"They took the bigger ones first," Burton said, recounting what her son told her.

"They looked in their mouth to see who had stronger teeth. And whoever was the strongest that's who they sold first."