Parents want apology for too-real slavery lesson

The Washington Times ^ | July 21, 2002 | Ellen Sorokin

[robowombat]

News of interesting pc educational techniques in progressive Alameda, California.

[2banana]

I wonder what they are going to do for the arab slave trade (that still goes on today), the American Indians who practiced genocide, slavery and cannibalism against each other, the Mayas who believed in human sacrifice (ie cutting the live heart out of a victim)...etc

[He Rides A White Horse]

Sick, sick, sick........

[southern rock]

The parents' attorneys claim the eighth-grade teacher, whose name was not released, bound her students' hands with masking tape and duct-taped each of the students to the floor

The parents of these kids should bind this teacher's hands with masking tape and duct-tape her , not to the floor, but the roof of a car, maybe. Perhaps the front of a train.

[Bob J]

I guess the kids weren't emoting enough after reading the chapter.

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[Austin Willard Wright]

I wonder if the black children were treated this way. I suspect that the teacher was a guilty white liberal who only did this to the white students to "make a point."

[InvisibleChurch]

why don't the parents demand an apology for a lousy education?

[MotleyGirl70]

California

Big shocker!

[Kenton]

I don't mind having the kiddies taught about slavery, but they aren't getting the whole story, of course, just the part that condemns white people of European descent for their involvement in it.

There's never any mention of the fact that half to two-thirds of the Europeans who came to this continent between the mid-1500s and 1750 came here as indentured servants, which is a form of slavery.

There's never any mention of the fact that slavery was a world-wide institution at the time, not the invention of Evil White Males.

There's never anything said about the Black Africans who actually took their fellow Africans prisoner and sold them into bondage to Arab slave traders, thus enabling the slave trade in the first place.

There's also very little mention of the thousands of white Americans who sacrificed their lives in a war of brother against brother to put an end to slavery in America.

Oh, and by the way, if you ever expect your kids to learn anything about the History of American Indians besides how badly they were treated by the whites, you are going to have to do a lot of research yourself, because they'll never hear about the atrocities committed by the aboriginal tribes at school.

It would be interesting, for example, to see a course teaching the kiddies about the virtual extinction of the Erie Indians of northern Ohio by the Iriquois Confederation in the 1600s. Especially the reports of the Jesuits who viewed Erie Indian prisoners being ceremonially burned by the Iriquois some 30 years after the rest of the tribe was wiped out. Imagine; they raised Erie captives to adulthood just to torture them to death.

Not exactly the stuff of today's educational experience, eh?

Which of course, none of this minimizes the tragedy of slavery. It just kinda points out the flaws of Political Correctness.

[EdReform]

More liberal horsesh*t taking place in the public schools.

Parents who still have their kids in public schools need to have a copy of the Hatch Amendment Letter on file with the school.

[EdReform]

Bump

[pabianice]

Perhaps next this teacher will set the kids on fire to let them experience what it was like to be a Holocaust victim...

[A2J]

California law requires schools to obtain parental consent prior to any activities.

Oh, really?

Did parents give their consent to have their children force-fed Muslim lessons and to participate in "activities," such as being given Muslim names?

What a crock.

[A2J]

The parents' attorneys claim the eighth-grade teacher, whose name was not released, bound her students' hands with masking tape and duct-taped each of the students to the floor as part of an exercise to show students how slaves felt as they were transported to America on slave ships.

Masking tape and duct tape, in the 1700's?

Another testimony to American ingenuity.

[Don Myers]

Ca. public schools are infamous for this kind of thing. Parents who care about their children need to clean out this hornet's nest of public educators.

[Don Myers]

"The parents of these kids should bind this teacher's hands with masking tape and duct-tape her ..."

You do have a good idea.

[Marysecretary]

Thanks, Kenton. Great post. White males have taken their share of it. It's time to spread the truth about what indigenous peoples did to their own.

[stands2reason]

The whole point was to traumatize the kids. It's called indoctrination.