There is a story of a 7th Grade Social Studies teacher in New York State, using visual and physical aids to teach her students about the slave trade that plagued the history of the USA. Seems that the teacher was white and she used duct tape to bind the hands and feet of two of her black female students, then told them to lay down under their desks, so that she could get her students to visualize what it must have been like for the real slaves aboard slave ships as they crossed the Atlantic.
When the two female students got home that day, they cried and complained to their parents about the incident.
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There is no doubt in my mind that there was no malicious intent behind this incident, but perhaps poor judgement.
I do suppose that this teacher could have imparted her lesson by narrating it to her class and asking each student to picture themselves lieing down on the floor being bound by rope and chains?
Barring the above, she should have asked if anyone wanted to volunteer, or perhaps went to her peers and asked what they thought of it as a teaching aid?
Oh well shouda, couda wouda..
You got the mother of one of the children screaming bloody murder and the G-D NAACP in the act now.
I wonder if artists and actors being asked to portray horrible things get emotionally scarred everytime they do something?
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