Intermitting sometime, I still ask, If Racism is taught, who taught the first racist? ●◎● Anyhoo, “You are my slave.” ● "School officials say there will be no more Civil War-related student dress-up activities at a Georgia elementary school after its “Civil War Day” sparked conflict among students, parents and others.
Big Shanty Elementary School last month invited fifth-graders to dress up as characters from the war. {Yes, in 2017]
The mother of a 10-year-old black child says a white student dressed as a plantation owner approached him and said, “You are my slave.”
In a Thursday letter to the mother, Corrie Davis, a Cobb County assistant superintendent assured that student dress-up activities related to the Civil War have come to an end at the school about 25 miles northwest of Atlanta.
With more than 110,000 students, Cobb County is Georgia’s second-largest school system."
Big Shanty Elementary School last month invited fifth-graders to dress up as characters from the war. {Yes, in 2017]
The mother of a 10-year-old black child says a white student dressed as a plantation owner approached him and said, “You are my slave.”
In a Thursday letter to the mother, Corrie Davis, a Cobb County assistant superintendent assured that student dress-up activities related to the Civil War have come to an end at the school about 25 miles northwest of Atlanta.
With more than 110,000 students, Cobb County is Georgia’s second-largest school system."
It annoys and angers and lastly saddens me how shallow the approach to history is popular today. It is weak-kneed. Black and white parents and teachers haven't the strong character or the scholarship to match the imagination it takes to teach at each level what a child needs to understand about his country; this country.
We are paying a price for this level of mimicry of righteousness, and the cowardice of the adults in this country that is the most violent and intimidating nation on the planet! Trying to tidy up a dark past is impossible to do. The European and the Euro-Americans wrote everything down. The record of their exploiting, killing and taking have always been sources of pride and their achievement by blood is what makes American great; it is 'the' thing Americans are most proud of. It is a helluva contradiction, but lying about it and carrying on like we are 'sensitive' is hypocrisy, and laughable.
We are paying a price for this level of mimicry of righteousness, and the cowardice of the adults in this country that is the most violent and intimidating nation on the planet! Trying to tidy up a dark past is impossible to do. The European and the Euro-Americans wrote everything down. The record of their exploiting, killing and taking have always been sources of pride and their achievement by blood is what makes American great; it is 'the' thing Americans are most proud of. It is a helluva contradiction, but lying about it and carrying on like we are 'sensitive' is hypocrisy, and laughable.
In the end citizens look weak and pitiful. ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Oct. 22, 2017)
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| The teacher is important in the education of a child. |
The teacher is important in the education of a child. What inspires boys to go to school is different from what inspires girls whom the system is made for. Boys need movement. If you won't let them play, let them imagine. If you don't develop the whole, suffer with the parts disconnected from the wholeness Life was meant to express! Resolution of this problem is as complicated as denial. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
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