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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Thank god he didn’t bring in a black guy.
I’ve picked cotton. I’ve butchered hogs. I’ve de-tassled corn. I’ve made soap. I’ve sewn/repaired clothing. I’ve done a lot of things that ‘slaves’ once did for their masters.
Where’s my cash-money? *SMIRK*
That's why in Texas, we "Chop" cotton (take the whole boll). Back in the 60's my family chopped cotton for extra money. Tried it in Mississippi, where my mother was from. Straw Boss saw our Texas license plate and ran us off.
Yes, there is no idiocy not embraced by the left.
I really don’t get this. Cotton was a major economic driver behind the “need” for slaves.
As a northerner I never saw a cotton plant until I was in my 30s. What a nasty little weed!
Being able to see and feel the plant, and understand what a labor intensive crop is seems to be a reasonable teaching tool.
But what do I know?
These people are just desperate to be offended by something. Anything.
I hope the commies succeed in wiping out all references to slavery. Then we can tell them we have no idea what they are talking about and to stfu.
Not culturally responsive.. Kind of like history..
What the hell was OFFENSIVE about teaching kids exactly what it means to manually pick cotton??
There is no hope for the future.
That is beyond stupid.
I was in Louisiana recently and toured an old plantation that was one of the first to get a cotton gin. We tourists were handed cotton balls to clean ourselves to get an idea as to how labor intensive it was before Eli Whitney’s invention.
But, as we all know, California was a huge slave state and there is a “legacy of slavery” among California blacks that is insidious to this very day - so much so that California is looking to pay reparations to its blacks:
The Guardian:
“California to consider slavery reparations after landmark law passed”
“State is first to adopt law to develop proposals on paying descendants of enslaved people.”
That teacher had a lot of bolls.
There were white kids picking cotton as well before and during the (D)FDR Great Depression; would that be classified as cultural appropriation? Many kids never seen cotton in the raw. Stupid snowflake admin.
These are precisely the kinds of teachers we need. Creative and they bring learning down to the level of the child so it is understandable. Unfortunately, teachers that should be rewarded are punished in liberal communities. In a rational society whoever is responsible for punishing this teacher rightfully would be fired.
The cotton gin was invented about 1794. It revolutionized the industry.
O.
M.
G.
Get over yourselves already.
“re-traumatize”
part of the Democratic policy of treating black people as infants
this policy is cultural genocide
https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/43864
Any kids wear clothes made from cotton in that classroom?
That’s what I was thinking. To my knowledge, there aren’t any cotton fields in the Bay Area. I would think students would like an opportunity to see the plant.
Stupid liberals are triggered by *everything.*
In chains. That would have been a history lesson. However, he would have ‘hurt’ their wittle feelings by telling the truth about history.
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