Ways to teach students about prejudice..and should we?
They acted out in the classroom where people were prejudiced against those with special needs, people were prejudiced against those who were wearing blue jeans, people were prejudiced against those who were Jewish. Had discussions afterwards about all these things, how the students felt when they were experiencing the prejudice. Would they ever do such a thing to someone else, knowing how horrible they felt? Why did they think prejudice could happen? And we also acted out ways not to be prejudiced, okay?
Kayla Danford
@MissKaylaSue · 3:02
I also learned, too, in my background in college about that experiment. And if you haven't seen it before, there was an extension on that recently where she replicated the experiment and did that with I think it was high school or college age students, if you can find that to watch. Pretty wild. I'm not sure about what age group you teach, but one that sticks with me in particular that I would highly recommend that you check out
Kayla Danford
@MissKaylaSue · 0:29
You. Hey, Leanne. Just a quick retraction. I just wanted to let you know that that experiment with the third wave took place in California in 1967. Not 1969. The video or TV special that they made about that. I actually found it on YouTube. I'll go ahead and send you a link to that, actually via messenger, for you to check out. Pretty cool
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
She texted all the parents, and one of the kids in my class is the rabbi's daughter, and he was right there and he was totally cool with it. So, yeah, this is something I think we need to have conversations about and not think, well, things are better, right? Like you were saying, calling bullshit on things. So it's definitely a worthwhile topic and one that I always, always address in one way, shape, form or another. So thanks
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:27
And to both of you, thank you so much for being the kind of teachers that are flexible and able to adjust your curriculum to handle what's in front of you. I think that's really a sign of courage and being responsive. And I know that there's a lot of restrictions in schools, but thank you, Leanne, for being able to tell us what you did and how you handled this
Jeremiah Myer
@Jeremiah73 · 5:00
The curriculums that children are exposed to at a very young age, they're changing history, they're banning books, and it's much easier to do in a private school setting than it is in a public school. Finally, you know, the question is what can just we you know, here I am, an old white guy. What can I do? Well, I can run for the school board
Jeremiah Myer
@Jeremiah73 · 4:24
And they've really taken the education ball, if you will, and ran with it. The reason I think that public education is really so very important is that when we allow young people to be educated at home home, or educated in a religious setting, or educated in, for that matter, a military school, or any other setting is that the curriculum can be I'm not saying it's always, but the curriculum can be used to indoctrinate young children
Thank you. DB, apologies for taking a few days to get back to you. It's been one heck of a week. But, yeah, I'm always happy to post and talk about these things. They're conversations we as a society definitely need to have. And thank you for reminding me to put things in the description and to put links in the blue eyes, brown eyes experiment. I think on YouTube, it's called A Nation Divided
But, yes, I do agree with a lot of the points you made about people using religious practices to quash what can and cannot be studied in a school setting. So I totally agree with you, and I'm totally with you on it. And I do agree with you. I think one of the most important elections is the school board. So I'm 100% behind you, and I really, really appreciate you taking the time to reply. So I hope all is well with you