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.
How is her daughter going be able to pick cotton when they don’t plant cotton in Redmond. Redmond is just a suburban development of Seattle with Microsoft quartered there. I don’t know maybe ‘dem’ cotton fields are in Microsoft.
I believe that made a difference between blacks and whites who picked cotton. There was no sheriff around where whites pick cotton. In other words, blacks were forced and whites simply did it to make ends meet. I could be wrong, please correct me.
At least it is honest work.
wow how in the hell could they be picking cotton and walking barefeet on that soil?
At least it is honest work.
Is she supposed to take a field trip to Alabama? Where in Washington state is cotton grown?
Why? It would be a learning experience. I was born in MS and have lived in AL since 1966. I have no idea how coal is mined. Doing it once might just make a good education more appealing. When my daughter moved to Seattle, people asked if cotton grew on trees down here. When my younger brother was on a train going back to camp, a friend from NY did not know what cows and horses were. I find that kinda sad. There are many things I have not seen though.
“when her grandparents were raised on a plantation to pick cotton”
The 13th Amendment was put in place 149 years ago. Either this girl’s got some really old grandparents, or her mom is full of crap.
...” for her to pick cotton when her grandparents were raised on a plantation to pick cotton”
I do not believe for a single second that a 7 year old girl has grand parents who were raised on a plantation (considering they pretty well were gone after the civil war). Perhaps her great grand parents were truck farmers but even that was n’t forced labor.
Obviously this mother thinks it is beneath her or her daughter to have to do ag work of any kind. Too bad it is an honorable profession
I pick blackberries now...and it will tear your hands up...and turn your mouth purple.
Your school district at work.
My mother picked cotton and she wasn’t a slave.
Liberals are ignorant and stupid.
I’m 81 years old and my grandmother was born in 1880.
The lies are unending.
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She might be delusional, or her grandparents might have been sharecroppers and she equates that with slavery.
That was my first reaction as well. My grand mother (may God grant her peace) was born in October of 1888. In watching the news feed this mother is NO where near my age (and she speaks valley girl lingo...you know??) so either her grand parents are related to Methusala or she is just as nuts as she seems
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