Posted on 12/14/2016 11:29:36 AM PST by Olog-hai
A Maryland high school teacher has been disciplined after encouraging students to “have fun” writing a slave song for an assignment as part of a lesson on abolitionist Frederick Douglass. […]
Principal Andrew Cockley wrote in an email to parents Dec. 7 that the assignment was linked to a lesson on “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.”
Cockley says the activity was culturally insensitive. …
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Days never finished, massa got me workin’, someday massa set me free!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcwyOaYyu7Y
I probably shouldn’t be laughing.
Suwanee River, My old Kentucky Home, Dixie.................
Well... It’d be fun to change lady Gaga’s song “born that way” to “ born my slave”
Just because it’d be insulting a homosexual theme song
The teacher isnow back, but the way she teaches will always be the same.
Consider;
For an assignment, there has to be SOME background data for a student to compose out of whole cloth, an essay that would describe a particular person or condition.
What was taught that a child (HS is not yet adult) would be ABLE to compose a song a slave might sing ?
D&D was condemned YEARS ago for the danger it posed to children role playing.
A Great Movie and you beat me to it.
Crack that whip
Give the past a slip
Step on a crack
Break your momma’s back
When a problem comes along
You must whip it
Before the cream sets out too long
You must whip it
When something’s goin’ wrong
You must whip it...
Devo - Whip It Lyrics
Last time I posted: Pick A Bale Of Hay from youtube a FReeper took offense - called me a racist.
I’d love to have fun with this, but some folks just never grow up...and I have little use for them.
Here’s one from about 90 years ago, but...
Do NOT click on this link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4lvOG-G95E
WARNING: not politically correct!
In a sane world, this would not have been a problem. A well-intentioned teacher would not have been raked over the coals for this. But it’s not a sane world. The obsession with destroying Whites for anything they say or do, or don’t say or don’t do, is overwhelming.
This happened in my county. The more I hear about our superintendent, the less I like her.
I once substitute-taught in a high school history class in which students were assigned to write an essay from a pro-slavery position. The teacher hoped this exercise would help students to understand the pro-slavery mindset prevalent in the mid-nineteenth century. However, he risked losing his job and being branded a “racist” if certain race-mongers had gotten wind of his assignment.
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