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Three years after Trayvon Martin, my students fight injustice with protest art (Look)
The Guardian & Observer's Teacher Network Blog ^ | March 4, 2015 | Brit in the Bronx

Posted on 03/04/2015 2:15:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

A teacher describes how the death Trayvon Martin made ger scrap her lesson plan and work on something more relevant with students.

Brit in the Bronx teacher created her portrait of Trayvon Martin using red Skittles wrappers and cream and turquoise Arizona drinks labels.

Sometimes the people you teach and the events that change their lives can take you to places you weren’t expecting. In 2012, my students had a Hoods Up For Trayvon Martin day in protest against the failure to arrest former neighbourhood watchman George Zimmerman for killing the Florida teenager. They came to class with their hoods up, many carrying bottles of Arizona – an iced tea beloved by US teenagers. They also had bags of Skittles – the only items Trayvon was carrying when he was shot.

That day I abandoned the lesson plan, got my badge maker out and we spent the day making protest art. We made badges from Arizona labels, Skittles wrappers and pictures of Trayvon.

I decided to write a series of lessons around protest art because the urge in my students to address injustice was so powerful. Any parent or teacher of a teenager will tell you how misunderstood and unfairly treated they can feel, but sometimes they have an important point to make....

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: education; florida; georgezimmerman; indoctrination; newyork; trayvon; trayvonmartin; trayvonprotest; trayvonprotestart; zimmerman
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1 posted on 03/04/2015 2:15:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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In 2012, my students had a Hoods Up For Trayvon Martin day,

Did they get high on "purple drank" and attempt to kill strangers?

No?

Not much of a "Trayvon Martin Day" then ...

2 posted on 03/04/2015 2:17:07 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Racism remains an EXCUSE to not get an education and a real job -— and be a law-abiding, respectable AMERICAN.

Thank You Obama, Holder, Sharpton and Jackson.


3 posted on 03/04/2015 2:21:45 PM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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4 posted on 03/04/2015 2:21:54 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
work on something more relevant with students

Hey lady, how about working on something more relevant with them like giving them skills to support themselves and get jobs, not this BS.

5 posted on 03/04/2015 2:24:25 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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That day I abandoned the lesson plan, got my badge maker out and we spent the day making protest art. We made badges from Arizona labels, Skittles wrappers and pictures of Trayvon.

 

Hey, I could do that.

 

6 posted on 03/04/2015 2:26:28 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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7 posted on 03/04/2015 2:26:32 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: NorthMountain

No wonder “Brit in the Bronx” uses a pseud. Who would publish this under their real name?

Oh and if she reads this: please Brit in the Bronx, learn to tip 20 -25%.


8 posted on 03/04/2015 2:27:08 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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A teacher describes how the death Trayvon Martin made ger scrap her lesson plan and work on something more relevant with students.

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Two sentence mistakes from the get go. Yep. This is definitely a Teacher blogging this.

Definitely.


9 posted on 03/04/2015 2:27:53 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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This so-called “educator” is a nut case. She should be fired for child abuse.


10 posted on 03/04/2015 2:29:55 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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This so-called “educator” is a nut case. She should be fired for child abuse.


11 posted on 03/04/2015 2:29:55 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Refusing to “take your licking” is unjust. I get it.


12 posted on 03/04/2015 2:32:15 PM PST by skeeter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And just how many Saint Tray-vons did she bring back to life with this!


13 posted on 03/04/2015 2:33:37 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: hal ogen

Trash art is not art.


14 posted on 03/04/2015 2:34:57 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Your students didn’t fight jack sh_t. But I’ll bet they all got an easy A for this waste-of-time feel-good “project” that looks like it was assembled by first graders who ran out of finger paints.


15 posted on 03/04/2015 2:35:41 PM PST by IronJack
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They should put more effort into fighting gangs, and the violence they reap.


16 posted on 03/04/2015 2:36:30 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: hal ogen

I agree...she abandoned her lesson plan for this nonsense.

“Protest art” is a skill in much demand by employers these days./S

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17 posted on 03/04/2015 2:37:01 PM PST by Mears (To learn, who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."~~Voltaire))
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Trayvon photo: Trayvon trayvon-trayvoff_zpse04fb876.jpg
18 posted on 03/04/2015 2:38:39 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I were an insensitive racist I would suggest that the Trayvon “art” could be used for target practice.


19 posted on 03/04/2015 2:39:22 PM PST by forgotten man
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now THAT is ART!!


20 posted on 03/04/2015 2:39:33 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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