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February 11, 2004
Sick and Wrong
And coming to a school near you.
Parents say an elementary school instructor's outlandish technique for teaching children about segregation has fostered fear and confusion among students rather than a fundamental understanding of racism.
Officials at Manch Elementary School have launched an investigation into the unusual Black History Month lesson, which involved separating children by skin color and giving preferential treatment to black students.
"All the African-American children were given board games to play, and everyone else had to put their heads at the table, and they weren't to look up or speak," said Stacey Gough, whose daughter Amber is a third-grader at Manch. "She told them that she believes in everything that Martin Luther King (Jr.) had to say and she wanted the white children to know what it was like to be black back then."
Mazzulla then allowed the black children to taunt their white classmates, Gough said her daughter told her.
"The black children were making fun of the white children, and saying things like, 'You deserve this for what your ancestors did to us,' and the teacher was letting them," Gough said.
Sometimes I think that the folks on the left propose things like this and the travesty called "Affirmative Action" in order to create racism in the white community.
If you read further into the article you will see this quote,
"Everything about race is so supersensitive" spoken by Gary Orfield, professor of education and social policy at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.
If Orfeld was as smart as he thinks he is he would realize that if you stop pointing out the differences in race, the kids won't notice.
Racism is learned. And apparently taught at Manch Elementary School in Nevada.
Posted by Nukevet at February 11, 2004 07:31 AM
Comments
This stuff is just disgusting and it begs the question of how these teachers get so screwy. It seems obvious to me that colleges are indoctrinating future teachers on how to be liberal activists. And the kids have to suffer because the teachers politicize the classroom.
Posted by: Interested-Participant at February 11, 2004 12:22 PM