If you are a teacher in any grade, i offer for free to hear your Black history ideas or slavery explanation experiments. I will tell you if you should do it or not for free. Ask away.
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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I wanna bang the black lunch lady.
Like, in front of the class?
I haven't thought out all the details yet
In your private life? Go for it. In front of the school? I would say, find another place instead of at school.
Yeah but I want to teach the kids what happens if you follow your dreams.
We have many laws against that.
This country...
I wish it was only us. Other countries do it with different groups as well.
Damn socialism.
Gotta get extra scoops somehow
can i traumatize black children by publicly treating them as actual slaves in front of their class? 5th grade teacher asking thanks
They will be scarred enough by society and the judicial system, there's no need in you adding to it.
No, this is not an original idea. It has been done and no, yours isn't unique.
Don't worry though, they know you are racist. No, knowing one black person doesn't matter. You should visit a historical black museum or non-profit to get more views.
How seriously do you think black-face was considered? Do you think it was the optics or logistics that stymied that thought?
"I don't need black face this year, I have black students! They can't say no, or I'll punish them"
with lashings for historical accuracy
Grew up in Mass. I remember one year I had to go to a multi-night field trip called nature's classroom. One the things we learned about was the underground railroad. They lined us up in rows of 2 and walked us like we were slaves while calling us negros and made whip cracks. They warned us that it would be Intense beforehand and a few kids cried who were allowed to fall out. It was intense but it was eye-opening of just a fraction of what slaves went through.
This however clearly had a bias of the participants color, did not get approval or suggestions from other staff. Or have a place for students to disengage from participation if they were yo troubled by it.
Ya this doesn't sound like a bad lesson tbh, but it needed to have some kind of warning and a way to not participate, plus it should have had all students in the slave auction and not just the black ones, so even the white kids could see what it was like at the time. The needless "n" word could also be dropped lol.
When was this? Pretty sure we didn't have anything like this anywhere near us growing up in MA... Although there are always weird exceptions. I foolishly feel like I gotta mention that not everyone who grew up in Mass had experiences anything like this. I'm about to be 40 fwiw.
I dont remember what grade I was in. But I'd guess between 13 - 19 years ago. I just looked Nature's Classroom up though and they've been around for 50 years.
I hate that Black children are always expected to just walk off being victims of racism. I wish that teacher nothing but the worst in life.