Comments on: Teacher sorry for binding girls in slavery lesson http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/ Political news & information geared towards the African-American community. Wed, 23 May 2012 12:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hall monitor http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-23481 hall monitor Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:36:11 +0000 http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/#comment-23481 This story made <a href="http://detentionslip.org" rel="nofollow">http://detentionslip.org</a> ! Check it out for all the crazy headlines from our schools. This story made http://detentionslip.org ! Check it out for all the crazy headlines from our schools.

]]> By: Bishop http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-23482 Bishop Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:49:50 +0000 http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/#comment-23482 I believe the class situation could have been handled different by, maybe, asking for voluteers to ACT the part of the slaves. Yes students should have been able to decline to be the slave or maybe give extra credit for those that did voluteer, but our fragile attitudes toward these lessons never educate. The teacher was illustrating a FACT of how slaves were treated and maybe the bound students could have explained to the class how this may them feel, or the class could have commented on how, seeing their classmate in those conditions, made them feel. Some lessons are hard. I believe the class situation could have been handled different by, maybe, asking for voluteers to ACT the part of the slaves. Yes students should have been able to decline to be the slave or maybe give extra credit for those that did voluteer, but our fragile attitudes toward these lessons never educate. The teacher was illustrating a FACT of how slaves were treated and maybe the bound students could have explained to the class how this may them feel, or the class could have commented on how, seeing their classmate in those conditions, made them feel. Some lessons are hard.

]]> By: hall monitor http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-6046 hall monitor Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:36:11 +0000 http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/#comment-6046 This story made <a href="http://detentionslip.org" rel="nofollow">http://detentionslip.org</a> ! Check it out for all the crazy headlines from our schools. This story made http://detentionslip.org ! Check it out for all the crazy headlines from our schools.

]]> By: Bishop http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-6044 Bishop Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:49:50 +0000 http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/#comment-6044 I believe the class situation could have been handled different by, maybe, asking for voluteers to ACT the part of the slaves. Yes students should have been able to decline to be the slave or maybe give extra credit for those that did voluteer, but our fragile attitudes toward these lessons never educate. The teacher was illustrating a FACT of how slaves were treated and maybe the bound students could have explained to the class how this may them feel, or the class could have commented on how, seeing their classmate in those conditions, made them feel. Some lessons are hard. I believe the class situation could have been handled different by, maybe, asking for voluteers to ACT the part of the slaves. Yes students should have been able to decline to be the slave or maybe give extra credit for those that did voluteer, but our fragile attitudes toward these lessons never educate. The teacher was illustrating a FACT of how slaves were treated and maybe the bound students could have explained to the class how this may them feel, or the class could have commented on how, seeing their classmate in those conditions, made them feel. Some lessons are hard.

]]> By: S Mills http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-6041 S Mills Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:43:44 +0000 http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/#comment-6041 While lawsuits don't solve issues of this nature, the situation does present an opportunity to set precedence. While lawsuits don't solve issues of this nature, the situation does present an opportunity to set precedence.

]]> By: regina thomas http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-6035 regina thomas Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:38:02 +0000 http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/#comment-6035 Slavery and binding is still a very sensitive topic. Maybe the teacher should have asked for volunteers, after explaining what she was going to do. Were there any white students in the class? If so the teacher could have asked one of them to do the simulation.<br><br>No matter what actions the school takes - you will not be able to erase in the minds of the students what they saw and how the binded girls felt.<br><br>Was the teacher being mean-spirited or just ignorant to the possible outcomes? Slavery and binding is still a very sensitive topic. Maybe the teacher should have asked for volunteers, after explaining what she was going to do. Were there any white students in the class? If so the teacher could have asked one of them to do the simulation.

No matter what actions the school takes – you will not be able to erase in the minds of the students what they saw and how the binded girls felt.

Was the teacher being mean-spirited or just ignorant to the possible outcomes?

]]> By: Dawna http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-6033 Dawna Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:56:32 +0000 http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/#comment-6033 Attention MOM!!!!! File that lawsuit! Public humiliation and "flogging" are acts of abuse. The act of tying one up in public with onlookers present and observing, is humiliating and is rightly and appropriately called emotional abuse. Period. Attention MOM!!!!! File that lawsuit! Public humiliation and “flogging” are acts of abuse. The act of tying one up in public with onlookers present and observing, is humiliating and is rightly and appropriately called emotional abuse. Period.

]]> By: SharonMcEachern8 http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-6026 SharonMcEachern8 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:23:53 +0000 http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/08/teacher-sorry-for-binding-girls-in-slavery-lesson/#comment-6026 Iwas surprised at just how many reporters, columnists and bloggers have gone out of their way to protect the teacher -- commenting tha she just could not have meant any racism, that she must have had good intentions, whe was just naive and misled in this particular lesson slavery. Oh Puleeze!<br><br>Ethic Soup blog has a good article on this subject at:<br><br><a href="http://www.ethicsoup.com/2008/12/teachers-ethics-lesson-dont-bind-black-students-to-teach-slavery.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ethicsoup.com/2008/12/teachers-ethic...</a><br><br>Sharon McEachern Iwas surprised at just how many reporters, columnists and bloggers have gone out of their way to protect the teacher — commenting tha she just could not have meant any racism, that she must have had good intentions, whe was just naive and misled in this particular lesson slavery. Oh Puleeze!

Ethic Soup blog has a good article on this subject at:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2008/.....hic…

Sharon McEachern

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