Posted on 06/11/2020 8:21:14 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A kindergarten teacher who created a video about race for her students says she hopes the video -- which now has nearly 100,000 views on YouTube -- helps inspire other teachers to make race an ongoing conversation in their classrooms.
"What I keep saying to teachers is you’re going to mess up, it's going to be uncomfortable but the outcome is so powerful that you would have regretted never saying something sooner," Vera Ahiyya, a kindergarten teacher at a public school in Brooklyn, New York, told "Good Morning America." "And kids can do it. Kids can have these conversations."
Ahiyya, who has taught kindergarten for 13 years, filmed a video of herself talking about racism and protests and reading the children's book, "Let's Talk About Race," as a way to engage her kindergarten students and their parents during the protests and unrest that have broken out across the country after the Memorial Day death of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis who was pinned down by a white police officer.
"One way to stop racism is to call it out when you see it," Ahiyya says in the video. "That means, if you see someone being treated differently because of the color of their skin, you have the voice, you make the choice, to say 'This is wrong.'"
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When I was in kindergarten I learned how to not run with scissors and to always point them down.
Unless a child is actually involved in a 'race' incident, adults shouldn't be imposing their issues on young children.
Anything to not teach actual skills for later in life.
Ain’t that nice.
Because every five year old is an intellectual giant.
Child abuse...
So if a white kid doesn’t get picked for the basketball team during PE, is that racism?
Again with the “conversation”.
Regardless of the age, there IS NO conversation. It is OUR WAY, OR SHUT UP.
And I prefer to avoid mentioning these things. Kids don’t need to have this thrown in their faces, for good or bad intentions. It’s better to ignore.
Closing down public schools and universities is only solution.
They have become marxist training/social engineering centers.
Even president Trump's children are brainwashed/ mushy in head.
Maybe it's too late.. america is already on way of rome.
A "conversation" with 5 year olds.
Middle class welfare, “but OUR public school is WONDERFUL, and we get to go on cruises and to Disneyworld and have season tickets to our local sportsballteam!”
That lady makes Venus of Willendorf look like a bikini model.
“You have to be carefully taught.”
Children have no idea of race. Only when jerks like this “teacher” start making it an issue, do they learn to think in terms of differences.
Running away from leftists isn’t the best way to deal with them. If you don’t like the way public schools are run then become a school board member or a principal.
Do they fly her over the Rose Bowl before a football game?
What a loser.
I thought that was what Sesame Street was for.
Funny you show a Dr. Seuss cartoon, after the way he portrayed the Japanese in his WWII cartoons.
We let our kids learn about race by opening our door and letting kids from all over the neighborhood play. The first thing they learned is that white hair won’t hold a braid.
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