I don't think the teacher was promoting the KKK. Just the opposite. Getting kids to think deeply and arrive at the correct conclusion.
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Exactly - it's called 'critical thinking', a skill which many American politicians could use further developing
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Yes! Former teacher here. Critical thinking is in rare supply in politics. Greed, hate rules.
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, well you know it was started by democrats
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And now mainly Republican in membership.
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Which is only fitting as
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Trump is still a democrat. He just wears a Republican mask now.
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5th grade is a little early but I don't see the problem with the latter questions about arab on a plane etc.. That way you can see who has
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prejudices and explain them that they don't have to be afraid. Who knows what they see in TV or learn at home.
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I guess it's better to know who feels that way as if they keep it for themselves. That way one can change something
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Perhaps she wanted them to realize there was NO justification for this treatment
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It was a thought experiment, to get the student to mentally try on someone else's point of view, not as endorsement, but to gain perspective
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Thought experiments 1) help students see everyone's humanity, (2) learn how to step outside themselves & think more critically...
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When we can mentally step outside ourselves, then we can more objectively examined our own ideas & perhaps spot & confront our own biases.
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So, "imagine you were a KKK member during reconstruction - what are your justifications and do you think these justifications are valid?"
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The student can then plug in their own beliefs and points of view and critically examine them in the same way. It's a good exercise.
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Maybe a bit advanced for fifth grade, but I don't think so; my kids were curious about other people's pov and motivations at that age.
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Long thread short (too late, I know) I think people are overreacting from a misunderstanding of the assignment's intent.
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They think like Democrats, because they were started by Democrats. For today’s Democrats lives don’t matter, votes matter KKK to this day.
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Started by Dixiecrats! They are now the GOP!
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