Melissa Statz's lesson on Black Lives Matter turned into a contentious battle in Burlington, Wis.
Peaceful BLM protests in Kenosha, Wi.
Posted on 10/24/2020 7:30:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In late August, during the second week of school in Burlington, Wisconsin, Melissa Statz heard children in her fourth grade class talking about Kenosha.
A couple of students had seen burned and boarded-up buildings in the nearby city, but they didn’t know the details of the protests that filled the streets after a police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back on Aug. 23. One student asked Statz, 30, if she knew what was going on in Kenosha, which is a half-hour drive from Burlington, a town of 11,000 that is 89 percent white.
Statz thought this could be a teachable moment, so that week she used a children’s book, an educational video and a worksheet to lead a discussion on racism and why people were protesting. She considered the materials neutral. The worksheet posed questions like, “What is the Black Lives Matter Movement trying to do?” and “How Do We Stop Systemic Racism?” The students seemed engaged, and asked a lot of questions, she said.
“One of the Black girls in my class came up to me and said, ‘Thank you so much for teaching our class about racism,’” Statz, who is white, said. Another Black child - one of fewer than 50 Black students in a district of more than 3,000 - gave her a hug after the lesson, she said.
Later that night, a colleague told Statz to look at a private community Facebook group with more than 40,000 members called “Burlington, WI, buy sell & trade.” Her stomach dropped.
A parent had posted photos of the worksheet Statz used and slammed it as an attempt to “indoctrinate our kids.” Like-minded community members were outraged and demanded that the school district discipline Statz.
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Melissa Statz's lesson on Black Lives Matter turned into a contentious battle in Burlington, Wis.
Peaceful BLM protests in Kenosha, Wi.
White Libeal Chicks will be the death of us.
She should have played this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/superyayadize/status/1319925004876845057?s=21
Libeal=Liberal
““People have just decided if you support Black Lives Matter, you must be a liberal,” Statz said of the town’s residents, who supported Donald Trump 2-to-1 over Hillary Clinton in 2016. “Somehow people have associated those words with a political party. I don’t know why. I think it’s a human rights issue.””
She is a lib
Scary that someone so uninformed about the origins of BLM is I’m a position to influence young skills filled with mush. I wonder about what other matters is she equally uninformed.
Stupid, vacuous, airheaded liberal runs into opinions that are different from hers for the first time and is still uncomprehending.
Typical Demwit play the naive card when you know exactly what you are doing.
I must ask if she has reproduced yet - is the damage already done? If not, someone please introduce her to several cats so as to distract her throughout her reproductive years and provide her with the companionship she will need for the rest of her life.
Why would you wish that upon the cats?
Maybe if these so-called educated (indoctrinated) teachers did their due diligence about who and what BLM really is they wouldn’t be so fast to start promoting them.
“Somehow people have associated those words with a political party. I don’t know why. I think it’s a human rights issue.””
Somehow? Maybe it was the co-founder of BLM saying they were “trained Marxists”? Or their website attacking the nuclear family until it was recently scrubbed?
I would have liked to have seen the spreadsheet she handed out to the students to see how inflammatory it was or wasn’t.
The fact that NBC didn’t include it leads me to believe it was the former.
I wonder if she mentioned that BLM is a Marxist front group, run by self-proclaimed Marxists?
Self-righteous virtue signaling is no substitute for the Gospel.
[She was shocked at the response, but she sure felt good about herself.]
She is the very definition of Lenin’s term Usefull Idiot.
And THAT, right there, is what being a Lib is all about.
(Boys and girls, note the new spelling word: disemboweled. It will be on your spelling quiz this week.)
She got caught.
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