Loudoun County teacher under investigation for passing around cotton while teaching about the history of the cotton gin

Not The Bee ^ | December 23, 2024 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Loudoun County has been the center of DEI clown world for quite a while now, and stories range from the horrible to ones like this that are just plain dumb.

Yes, a teacher at Riverside High School is under investigation because he distributed a piece of raw cotton for students to examine, while giving a lesson about the invention of the cotton gin and slavery.

I had a history teacher who conducted this exact exercise, and the tactile reinforcement has helped me remember the lesson he taught that day, even all these years later.

(But I went to school back in the days when folks still thought racism was wrong and that skin color didn't matter.)

Today, some students in the teacher's class felt that cotton is evil, and they reported the teacher for racism.

(I'm guessing they would all be horrified if they read the tags on their T-shirts).

In a letter sent to parents Friday, Principal Doug Anderson said 'lessons of this nature may cause students to feel any number of emotions,' adding 'some students in the class may have used the situation as a way to act in an insensitive manner.'

'This is not what we are trying to accomplish in our classrooms and we will endeavor to do better,' Andersen wrote in the letter. 'Every individual is valued in Loudoun County Public Schools.'

The Loudoun County Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department was called in to revise the history courses indoctrination to avoid future trauma.

Going forward, they also intend to notify parents ahead of time of any lessons that might contain sensitive topics like cotton, which will likely include all topics except gender transitions.

How much longer must we endure this nonsense?

[Political Junkie Too]

'lessons of this nature may cause students to feel any number of emotions,'

I wonder what they teach in art class.

Heaven forbid that our children feel emotions.

-PJ

[Jamestown1630]

Cotton isn’t the only thing slaves picked...

[fwdude]

So, now we can’t say:
- cotton
- monkey
- niggardly
- dark
- Uncle Remus

[Lurker]

We should have picked our own damned cotton.

L

[V_TWIN]

Brought to us by the same people that believe the word “niggardly” is racist slur.

[Red Badger]

- Uncle Tom

- Aunt Jemima

- Uncle Ben

- Can’t sing Workin’ on the Railroad..................

[heavy metal]

should’ve told them it was an example of yesteryear’s tampons...

[BenLurkin]

Fortunately the Woke Reign of Terror is coming to an end.

[citizen]

And Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben.

[Lurker]

Will you redeem us, Uncle Remus….

L

[fwdude]

Isn’t Jemima a career woman now, driving a BMW?

[Red Badger]

True, corn, tobacco and all sorts of other crops, but Cotton Was King............

[citizen]

I remember the modeled woman was quite proud.

Idk about a Beemer.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So, now we can’t say:
- cotton
- monkey
- niggardly
- dark
- Uncle Remus

Mention of briar patches is especially verboten.

[metmom]

I wonder what the leftists are going to be left wearing?

Cotton = bad because (allegedly) of slavery.

Oil = bad means no synthetic clothing or manufacturing of it. Maybe they can wear wool homespun.

[taxcontrol]

I am white and have actually picked cotton. It sucks.

[Jamestown1630]

If they’re triggered by cotton, don’t show them sugar cane. That was hellish work.

[Red Badger]

Me too!.

I was raised in Mississippi!..................

[Vaduz]

Yeah the civil war may be proof of it?.