Posted on 04/09/2011 8:26:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
It sounds as though the dumb biatch can’t get over the slavery thing. She needs to get a life, a job more appropriate to her intelligence level and maybe try to move on. Slavery in America has been over for a long time.
February is Black History Month and Mrs Boyle, the teacher, meant this as an April Fools Day prank. The Irish have no shame. < /sarcasm>
A teacher decided to auction off black students...wouldn’t that be the definition of A Bad Idea?
Unless you're trying to brainwash kids into thinking: "I'm a victim. I'm a victim. I've been personally victimized by slavery and racism."
Excellent point.
So history should be ignored? Denied? Whitewashed?
For the life of me I don’t see what was wrong with the lesson.
It reminds me of the hysteria surrounding the former Mayor of D.C. saying he was going to be niggardly with the spending in the district.
How Slavery Really Ended in America
Apparently there are a few here at FreeRepublic that missed that memo...
More appropriate "current events" re-enactments could include the following:
- Have the boys wear turbans and beat the girls not wearing head scarves
- Have teachers steal half the kids' lunch money and give it to the DNC
- Force the smartest kids in the room to give their gold stars to the lazy ones
- find out which kids have the wealthiest parents, and make the other kids tease them as "greedy and evil"
- Have the kids sing songs lauding Barack Hussein Obama, Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
No.
But really? This is the best they could come up with to teach this?
If the teacher had decided to use the white kids instead of the black and brown kids to be sold, this teacher would have been given the Teacher of the Year award for ‘innovation in teaching.’
But for some it has left in its path an earth, scorched and debauched, with soil poisoned by the salt of slavery and only the enslavement of the white devil can purify the stain.
While this probably wasn’t the best way to teach the subject to 4th graders, I’m a bit surprised at some of the comments on this thread as they sound so very much like the libs spouting in the comments section of the VAPilot. I read there every day and have a pretty good idea of the local liberals as I have often engaged many of them in the comment section.
I was telling this fellow at work about an old west saloon called St Elmo.
Wyatt Erp, Doc Holliday and the rest frequented the place.
Anywho.. I took my kid in there as a history lesson.
The proprietor pointed to a sign that said “unattended children will be sold into slavery”
The words just left my mouth when I realized he was black and that he may have been offended.
I was embarrassed and angry that I should feel that way.
My own people were enslaved. Why should I feel guilty to even utter the word?
It reminds me of the hysteria surrounding the former Mayor of D.C. saying he was going to be niggardly with the spending in the district.
Especially since niggardly means being stingy
Well, remember this, only Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Calypso Louie Farrakhan, are allowed to separate the races.
For anyone else, it is a No No.
Whoa!! Didn’t even a small warning bell go off in her head?
I disagree.Role playing in lessons can really make it more real and the lesson sticks.The thing is she needed to contact all of the parents fiirst and inform them of what she had planned and why then get permision slips.Then with the participating children she needed to use a lottery system for what each was going to play.Whether slave holder or abolishiist, slave or freeman.There were many options she could’ve used.She just went about it all the wrong way.
And I can understand that. However, wouldn’t a little role playing about the slavery of communism be a little more appropriate as well as timely these days? Unfortunately, most of the clowns teaching in our schools these days wouldn’t want to see that lesson plan out there floating around, IMHO.
The next time the teachers does this she needs to remember that there were thousands of black slave OWNERS in this country. There were even some black men who were slave breeders. They sold their own children into slavery.
She needs to also remember that it was blacks who sold other blacks into slavery in Africa. How else did the slaves get into slavery? The sailors on the ships were not going into the jungle to get them.
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