Next time its for real.
Posted on 02/25/2010 6:00:46 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
Stephany Fournier, an 11th-grader at Pine View School, did not want to punish her fellow classmates, but it had to be done. They defied the law.
"I'm normally a nice person, but I have to be really firm with these people," Stephany said. "They must come in, sit down and write this line on paper, front and back."
The line: "I will serve the glorious East German state better."
The students copied it repeatedly after watching a propaganda film depicting the evils of Western culture.
The drill was part of a history lesson taken to an elaborate level Tuesday at Pine View, where Stephany and the rest of the 2,000 students participated in an interactive lesson commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.
"This was a project of the history club, and their idea was that students should really have an idea of what it was like to live in a communist state," said social studies teacher Patricia Johnston, who helped organize the project and served as the lead "comrade."
Students, with the help of a local landscaping company, erected a nearly 100-foot paper replica of the Berlin wall, complete with graffiti. It stood across the middle of the campus to mimic the concrete wall that separated communist East Germany from capitalist West Germany from 1961 to the end of 1989.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldtribune.com ...
Lord Obama isn’t gonna like this!;-)
Very good! Life lessons and "hands on" like. They need to know this.
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Good exercise, but sometimes these things have unintended consequences. For example, some of the students “put in charge” will learn that they LIKE the power. Just like some leftists who read Orwell’s 1984 don’t look at it as a cautionary tale but rather a blueprint for a preferred future...
Hmm, sounds like a good exercise.
This is great. Have to hand it to the children in the history club that came up with this and the staff that assisted. Some lessons are best learned in the field.
I think this is a wonderful lesson. Best way to learn communism is the experience it.
Next time its for real.
Showing “The Lives of Others” in the class would have been real good as well.
Vy VY nice!!!
True...
Thanks for sharing! What a wonderful project. Hopefully these young men and women won’t forget it when they start to vote!
Now feed them simply cheese for lunch and they will now what Carter was about and what the near future holds.
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