Posted on 12/23/2024 11:39:36 AM PST by 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?
Can’t say “spank the monkey”? Well, just darn.
Are they going to ban those packages of little cotton balls?
The cotton balls are white too!
Lol.
Guerilla is another one
Very interesting.
Thanks.
Me too. White and picked cotton but only for one day helping a relative. Not a pleasant job...hot, bugs, and it will scratch your hands up good. I couldn’t imagine doing it every day. When the cotton is full and fluffy, the fields look pretty to me.
Shoplifting from the local clothing retailer could count as cotton picking.
Go figure. The lefties are triggered about cotton and oil while wearing blue jeans (made from cotton) and being delivered on a bus (diesel). Oh the horrors.
There will be riots in the streets.
If you are wearing any cotton, pull it all off, NOW!
“I can bet every damn person in that class is wearing some.”
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1) My lady friend says cotton is becoming increasingly rare in undergarments.
2) A book by my 1812-era Grandfather shows he was asked when making the trip to England, for him to buy linen and cotton garments.
(Which tells me England had their hands bloodied in US slavery).
-PJ
I did a top grade research project booklet about cotton when I was in elementary
school. I still remember how great it was to have successfully managed to locate and request a real, untouched cotton puffy beige cotton bunch right from the plant on which it had grown. Never did the teacher or any student dream of being “offended” by a school science report. I pity today’s teachers and students; they are programmed to be intellectual idiots and fools.
Good churches should have a line item in their budgets for subsidizing families who are home schooling. Or to subsidize tuition for families sending kids to parochial schools.
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