Posted on 04/27/2022 6:32:43 AM PDT by rktman
Parent: ‘Re-creates conditions that evoke so many deeply hurtful things about this country’
A San Francisco history teacher allegedly was suspended and then forced to apologize for bringing in cotton plants for a lesson on slavery and the cotton gin.
Last month, the Creative Arts Charter School teacher had brought in the plants, called “bolls,” to show “the sharp edges that had pierced hands while picking cotton and pulling out the seeds,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
It took less than a day for the school to begin an investigation into the teacher and the lesson.
Although school officials “declined to confirm” what specific actions were taken, the teacher was absent for five weeks following the lesson. Upon her return just nine days ago, she issued a written apology to school families.
The apology noted the lesson was “sourced from reliable sources” (the report indicates it is “widely available online”) and was “an effort to get the students to understand the difficulty of manually processing cotton prior to the invention of Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin.”
But, the teacher added, “I realize that this lesson was not culturally responsive and had the potential to cause harm.”
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How does this make any sense?
It proves they don’t want blacks educated, and they don’t really want them educated about the black experience or anything to do with it.
They want people ignorant and filled with blind emotional rage.
But, the teacher added, “I realize that this lesson was not culturally responsive and had the potential to cause harm.”
That statement reflects the horrible harm already being done by a near - Nazi approach to censorship.
Lif dat barge, tote date bale,
think a lil bit, ya land in jail... “
These are the geniuses who believe you inherit memories and emotions from your ancestors and pass them onto your children.
Jim crack corn I don’t care,
Jim crack corn I don’t care,
Jim crack corn I don’t care,
Ole Massa gone away.
Eli Whitney's cotton gin machine eliminated the need to
injure your hands pulling out the seeds, because his
invention took over the task.
But Eli was an evil white man.
EVIL, EVIL, EVIL WHITE DEVIL!(tm).
So he must have been trying to hurt and exploit the
black man / woman in some way - I'm sure of it.
/s
Time to find a different job.
Now that’s funny !
Never having lived through it, how would the kids in that class be able to relate ?
Nothing like Egyptian Cotton. Love my very expensive 800 count sheets.
Me too. What is “culturally insensitive” about this?
The left are collectively nuts. Maybe that’s all we can say.
This isn’t idiocy.
This isn’t education either - this is indoctrination. Training the heads full of mush to react to particular stimuli in a certain way, despite any rational or logical alternative.
The teacher should have NOT apologized, and sought legal assistance. Easier said than done, knowing full well they would have been run out on a rail, and would likely need to leave the state if they wished to keep this career.
Instead, the teacher is now a simple cog in the indoctrination machine, taking their bit of food when the bell rings after they perform their trick.
Ginning cotton and picking cotton are two different things. Cotton picking machines didn't come into widespread use until after WWII. Before that all cotton was picked by hand.
Chopping cotton basically means to hoe the weeds out of the rows, just like someone would hoe their garden. Chopping cotton was backbreaking work as many old timers could tell you. Picking it was backbreaking work too.
Country music fans will recognize the term "Hoedown" which originally referred to barn dances. A Hoedown happened at the end of week of chopping cotton when people put their hoe down and gathered in barns for music and dancing.
You're right. A hands-on experience of actually being able to see and touch something pertinent to the lesson... What a terrible idea! Suspend him! ;-/
You know the real reason? I believe the left does not want to set or allow such precedents. They do not want people teaching what conditions were really like. They want to control the narrative. History is what they say it is. News is what they say it is. Interpretation of events is what they say it is. Can't have people thinking and discovering for themselves in any area. Why, they might try it in other areas too.
My father picked cotton when he was 10 years old. He said the black folk laughed at him because he couldn’t drag the sacks they used.
Woke charter school. Get your kids out of that school. They will destroy your child.
Once again, I thought at first that this was from the Bee. The stupidity of our political, social and cultural leaders today is simply beyond belief!
Using artifacts, manipulables, etc., is standard pedagogical practice. If kids are going to be traumatized by seeing and handling cotton plants, and knowing what hard work it was for slaves to harvest them, then maybe it’s better to skip altogether any teaching about slavery. Maybe skip teaching about wars, holocausts, and a lot of the other horrors a person runs into during the study of history, too.
Bring in cotton to teach actual history, no. Bring in drag queens to glorify perversity, yes. How is a child supposed to emerge from public schools with any sanity?
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