HAZELWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT ET AL. v. KUHLMEIER ET AL. United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit (1988) 795 F. 2d 1368, reversed FACTS: Hazelwood East High School Journalism II students, edit The Spectrum the schools official newspaper. Two articles included in the Spectrum had been about divorce and student pregnancies. One article which was a story on a girl who blamed her father for the divorce of her parents, the other was about pregnant teenagers of Hazelwood East High School sharing the experiences they encountered in the school.
In the documentary, “A Class Divided” filmed in 1970, a third grade teacher in Iowa named Jane Elliot did something that I felt was so amazing, during a time period that most might consider risky. She divided her class by the color of their eyes and came up with very clever ways to make them feel discriminated against. Watching the short film, about how she taught her class the lesson of discrimination, which was prompted by the death of Martin Luther King, is just fascinating! At first I was writing down everything I could to be able to reference my notes later, to write this paper. Suddenly I just stopped writing and really got into the lesson as though I was in the classroom with them.
There has to be some kind of system to let the students know how they are doing (383). In this essay Mandrell presents her trial of testing the non-grading system and whether the students have the drive to learn the curriculum set by the teachers. Mandrell’s own account starts in her high school senior AP English class. Mandrell noticed how most of the students were wishing that they still had junior English class. A handful of students mouthed off about how their junior English teacher, Mrs. Thornton, hardly ever gave out hard assignments.
I think it is because of two basic reasons; firstly, as Tatum points out, one can relate better with peers of their own race because they too understand the difficulties of being a minority. I think she really made a great point, how can we expect a white person to understand the racism towards African Americans. Ms. Tatum gave an example regarding a 9th grade substitute teacher suggesting four-year colleges to all her white students and suggesting that a black adolescent male in her class go to a community college. It would be almost silly for that African American boy to sympathize with one of the white peers, not only would it be hard to relate to each other, it would be downright embarrassing. I actually think that the white teenager wouldn’t be able to see why the colored boy was hurt, they would just brush it off and give an explanation like “oh the teacher didn’t mean it like that”.
Rajin Patel Period 3 1/9/11 Miss Woodward Discrimination In the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination Miss Elliott thought it would be practical to create a small scale discrimination experiment in her third grade classroom. This exercise would help the children to see the nature of racism and prejudice at an early age. First Miss Elliott divided her all-white classroom into two groups. The two groups were the children with brown eyes and the children with blue eyes. This caused the children to see differences within each other, which would cause them to become exposed to the real world’s problem of racism.
Ms.Anderson Period 8 English 7 april 2014 Angela Davis contributed to racial justice in America she is a radical African American educator for civil Rights and social issues, she knew about racial prejudice from her experience throughout life. Davis Organized study groups. Angela Davis was born on January 26, 1944 in Birmingham Alabama she knew Also knew young African American girls killed in the Birmingham church of 1963. Later on in life she Moved and went to a university in Massachusetts where she studied philosophy, in the late 1960s she Joined several groups like the Black Panther mostly communist party. After spending time traveling and l Lecturing Angela returned to teaching she is now a professor at the university of
Critique of “Will Your Jobs Be Exported” by Alan S. Blinder Starting in elementary school teacher’s begin to prepare you for standardize testing. You learn all this material, and test on it, learn the material… and the cycle continues. Kids who cannot test well drop out or fail and are looked down on by society , kids who succeed pass and continue on and are praised, the question is does that particular style of learning come in handy when all the American people jobs are being exported. According to an article in The Atlantic news paper “53% of recent college graduates are jobless or unemployed” so in the end are we not all equal? When all the jobs of the future go to personal service jobs, will American children only know how to test or fail or to invest all their time into schooling for professions that will not pay?
Jane Elliott was a third grade elementary school teacher. After Martin Luther King Jr.'s assignation, she came to the realization that she had to teach her students more then what what they talked about when covering discrimination. She wanted her class to truly get to feel what it was like to live in a world where you were told this type of person was better then the other so, she divided her class into children who have brown eyes and children who have blue eyes. On Day One, she told the blue-eyed children how they would Go to the playground first and none of the brown eyed people could play or talk to them. She also told them how much smarter they were then the brown eyed people, and how they had better manners.
In the PBS Frontline documentary after the A Class Divided there is a segment where Jane conduct's the segregation demonstration for the employees of the Iowa department of corrections. I also was surprised and happy to find out that the documentary has been used often in businesses, schools, and other organizations. I think adults of different races or color would be happy to see that there is a way of teaching children and adults what it feels like to be discriminated against. The tactics Jane Elliot uses to create negative stereotypes and cause segregation are; 1.) A collar must be worn around the neck of the Inferior group.
Jahn Derousseau Bridge 115: Sharpe Seminar Essay 2 3/12/12 The role of ethnicity in today’s society is such a drastic change from 40 years ago. I remember my mom telling me stories about her in middle school; she was one of the first white kids to go to an all black school. Back then everything was separated, so a few kids from her school were selected to switch schools because of the recent laws that were passed to initiate the beiging of public schools. My mom went through a lot as a kid, but also made history and helped allow me to go to such a diverse school. Today we can see how everything is changing; white is no longer the dominant race.