And they walked uphill to school BOTH ways.
PS, this man picked cotton. Sometimes having a job like that at an early age makes you want to go out there and succeed at something else so you don't have to.
Posted on 04/30/2014 2:43:58 PM PDT by JoeProBono
REDMOND , Wash. A mother in Washington is upset after a teacher at her daughter’s middle school allegedly gave students an assignment that required them to pick cotton so that they could "see what it was like to be a slave."
Carolyn Walker called Redmond Middle School to inform them that her daughter would not be doing the assignment and later found out the teacher gave her daughter an F.
"My daughter is African American and for her to pick cotton when her grandparents were raised on a plantation to pick cotton, is not OK, it's not OK at all," Walker told KIRO 7. "It's not just about my daughter, all races should not have to participate in this. It's wrong, it's absolutely wrong."
According to the Lake Washington School District, the lesson was about “the impact that the invention of the cotton gin had on the Industrial Revolution."
Walker has scheduled a meeting with the teacher and the principal where she will request that the cotton lesson be dropped from the school’s curriculum.
I can picture that, but sixth graders aren’t savvy enough to take over the plantation!!!
FWIW I know of several people here in NE Mississippi that had Grandfathers that fought during the Civil War. Until two years ago, there were two men that were Real Sons of Confederate soldiers, meaning that their Fathers were Confederate soldiers. The last Confederate widow in Mississippi passed away in 1987.
Maybe they had grandfathers that fought in the Civil War. As men turn into old men those tails get bigger and bigger. My grandfather once caught a whale... Never trust a grandpa :) Miss him every day.
And they walked uphill to school BOTH ways.
PS, this man picked cotton. Sometimes having a job like that at an early age makes you want to go out there and succeed at something else so you don't have to.
You forgot that it was 5 miles up hill both ways and through 8 feet of snow. :)
I guess that Al Gore sold all those baccky fields.
The little girl’s grandparents were slaves? If her mother is 50 (generous calculation) and if HER mother (the grandparent) was 50 when she had her that would take back to 1914. How much slavery was there back then???
BTW, my 12 YO son and I are going to help with the grape harvest this summer at a local vineyard. He's really excited about it, but I think his enthusiasm will wane rapidly after picking grapes in 100 degree weather.
I can't wait for what should be an excellent teaching moment.
If she had to pay to pick cotton which was then sold and the money was given to the other students who sat around and did nothing, she would understand what it is like to work in the private sector.
And rain or "shine" you worked". Picking corn and other produce.
Was his name Mohammed?
LOL! My grandfather remembered the time Galveston Bay froze over. I always wondered about that. :)
Of course as a child I believed every crazy thing he told me at first. Then I learned to run things by Grandma before I repeated the story to anyone else.
#ITSTRUEITELLYA
“What I don’t know about Jewish traditions could fill a book.”
I suspect you may own the book, however. Seems most do. They just don’t read it.
(And yes, I am joking about the “airing of grievances,” in case someone is taking me seriously. Jewish families are just like any other family. Add extended relatives and wine, and it becomes a Coen Brothers movie, hopefully without the dybbuk.)
LOL!
No problem, give me an unopened bottle of aspirin.
Yeah, it was a little joke. I was hoping you would see what I did there.
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