You can't make up stuff like this....GA teacher?

[Tristicus]

Like I said, you are a true blue chipper, first class, grade A, Moron.

You've got Grade A responses. You should consider joining a debate team.

 

[classy]

You've got Grade A responses. You should consider joining a debate team.

At least I would be able to make the debate team.

 

[NoWhereM]

She LET her students. LET. She didn't force. It was a goddamn reenactment.

You are correct. From what is posted in the op it doesn't sound like she provided the costumes or that it was even her idea. You may now lord your superior reading and comprehension skills over fellow posters who are less competent.

 

[Tristicus]

At least I would be able to make the debate team.

We got a real winner here folks.

 

[Bitek]

So all black people are daily called great person and spit on and have their family raped and sold?

No.

Black slaves did. And I'm damn sure nobody still living today was a slave, and I'm damn sure nobody today is affected by slavery.

Your whole post makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Ok whitey, I see you have a hotline on the pulse of the black nation.

People are still fighting over some bullshit that happened 2000 years ago. You really think the effects of 400 years of a system of slavery just got wiped out when the last slave died?

The last Jews from the Nazi camps have almost all died. I'm sure Germany is looking forward to everyone putting the whole Holocaust thing behind them.

 

[woodie1]

Something new for the PC people to fret over. Life is good.

 

[werepossum]

I tend to agree with Classy. I can't imagine what re-enactment with Klansmen would be worth filming, though I admit it is possible there was value to it. As to the teacher "letting" her students do this, that's no excuse. She has the responsibility to direct and oversee her students' activities, and certainly roaming the halls in Klan robes (even with Spongebob hats) is verboten no matter who provides the robes. I'm not a PC guy, but between being continuously offended and dressing like a Klansman there has to be a bit of sane middle ground.

And WTF, Spongebob's head is square. How does a Spongebob hat make a Klan hood? Was this the blockhead wing of the klan?

 

[Moonbeam]

Something new for the PC people to fret over. Life is good.

It's a sickness.

 

[Patranus]

The point is the slavery was in some cases so abominable that it should never be reenacted. Same with dressing up in KKK uniforms or Nazi outfits. You can teach history without revisualizing the degradation. But I don't expect someone of your character to agree.

Sounds like revisionist history to me.

Didn't the "progressives" get their panties in a bunch last week claiming that Texas was "censoring" the harsh realities of some historical topics?

Hell, the Romans oppressed many European people and used them as slaves, lets stop all school plays involving the Romans.

 

[dahunan]

Sounds like revisionist history to me.

Didn't the "progressives" get their panties in a bunch last week claiming that Texas was "censoring" the harsh realities of some historical topics?

Hell, the Romans oppressed many European people and used them as slaves, lets stop all school plays involving the Romans.

you are such a miserable little bitch

fuck you... go be a slave and then play your fucking frat boy comparisons

OPPRESSED vs HANG from tress--beat and murder-- light on fire-take for a drag

AND ARE YOU IN ROME BITCH... THIS IS USA...

go re-enact some fucking HOLOCAUST PLAYS IN JERUSALEM... huh???

 

[Red Dawn]

So profound.

umad?

 

[TwinsenTacquito]

in your high school?

anyhow.. go be a slave and let white people call you great person and spit on your and rape your wife and children and sell you whenever the fuck they feel like it and kill you if they feel like it

then tell us racist issues in this country are all fucked up bla bla bla

Tell us who hurt the poor wittle white people in the USA that allows them and their children to be whiny punks with no ability to see the horrors of the KKK

What got this teacher all excited about dressing kids up as NEGRO KILLERS... did it make the teacher feel proud to see his students dressed up in Georgia Pride?

Clearly this teacher made all his black students into slaves, raped their wives, and spit on them.

MY EMOTIONS, MOMMY! THEY MAKE ME SAY STUPID THINGS!

 

[ch33zw1z]

And? Did the cartoon just appear out of think air or did someone create it? The only real difference is that you can switch the channel if you don't like what you are watching, but it is still there to offend you no matter what you do.

The difference is school/teachers are funded publicly, the cartoon is not. Don't like the cartoon? that's right, change the channel. You're not there to watch your kids at school, the people who are should use the best judgement. Freedom of speech applies to the media, not to a public school system in most cases...even if it's historically accurate.

 

[nick1985]

you are such a miserable little bitch

fuck you... go be a slave and then play your fucking frat boy comparisons

OPPRESSED vs HANG from tress--beat and murder-- light on fire-take for a drag

AND ARE YOU IN ROME BITCH... THIS IS USA...

go re-enact some fucking HOLOCAUST PLAYS IN JERUSALEM... huh???

 

[CitizenKain]

Sounds like revisionist history to me.

Didn't the "progressives" get their panties in a bunch last week claiming that Texas was "censoring" the harsh realities of some historical topics?

Hell, the Romans oppressed many European people and used them as slaves, lets stop all school plays involving the Romans.

You mean the part where Texas was changing history because reality isn't as rightwing as they want.

 

[DietDrThunder]

As a parent, I would have to say that this reenactment would have upset me as well. You have to understand that African American's weren't the only groups targeted by the KKK.

I’ll try to keep this short. My Great Grand Parents, Great Grand Father's brother, along with my infant Grandfather immigrated to America from Moravia (Now part of the Czech Republic) in 1889. They bought a farm in Central Texas, where others of their nationality were farming. When I was a kid, my Grandfather told me the horror of what happened one night when he was around 6 years of age. The KKK tied my Great Grand Parents, and my Great Grand Father's brother to posts, tortured my Great Grand Father and killed his brother. The farm house and barns were burned to the ground. The KKK then went on and burned other immigrant farms in the area that same night. Some of the immigrant families fared better than others, and they all banded together and helped each other. They armed themselves because the local county sheriff was of no help to them, and they protected each other.

Now that I'm done rambling I guess my point is that history needs to be taught. The KKK needs to be shown for the evil that they did in films and in documentaries, but I'm not sure I believe reenactments in the classroom of this nature are proper.

 

[hal2kilo]

Lumpkin County Schools ....lol

 

[polarmystery]

I see no issue with the teacher. It's part of history.

/signed

A black guy
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[tk149]

My initial reaction to the headline was WTF kind of idiot teacher does that?

But now that I've read the article (which some of the above posters obviously did not), I can understand what happened.

Teachers are supposed to encourage learning. One way to do that is to make learning fun. That means going outside of textbooks, and involving the students in activities that encourage them to get involved.

This teacher was teaching the history of racism in America and let her students do a film project on a white supremacist group. Now, this is just a guess, but I'd bet that this film was not glorifying the KKK, but vilifying it. Why is that bad?

It's not like this was Halloween and the teacher let them dress up.

 

[Fern]

It was a class on film making. (I see some posters didn't read the article. References to 'reading about it in a book' are kinda humorous given this a class on making films.)

So, the project was a film on the history of racism in the USA, a subject chosen by the students themselves. I don't see a problem with that, or how it is objectionable.

I do wonder how you would do a film on racism without portraying any racists? So, I see no problem with actors dressing up as racists (KKK) to be in a film about racism.

Looks to me like a whole bunch of (PC type) over-reaction.

Fern

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

The point is the slavery was in some cases so abominable that it should never be reenacted. Same with dressing up in KKK uniforms or Nazi outfits. You can teach history without revisualizing the degradation. But I don't expect someone of your character to agree.

I don't expect someone of your intelligence to understand that to prevent atrocities of the past to happen again we must know about them in the 1st place.
Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

If the teacher told the kids to wear robes and run a black kid up the flag pole that would be one thing.

 

[BoberFett]

you are such a miserable little bitch

fuck you... go be a slave and then play your fucking frat boy comparisons

OPPRESSED vs HANG from tress--beat and murder-- light on fire-take for a drag

AND ARE YOU IN ROME BITCH... THIS IS USA...

go re-enact some fucking HOLOCAUST PLAYS IN JERUSALEM... huh???

Hahahaha, dahunan is back on the sauce.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I see your point, it's not the end of the world. It's not like she was advocating the KKK (not uncommon in North GA - Deliverance was filmed there for God's sake).

But... she fails on cognitive thinking. Putting someone in a KKK suit isn't going to help them learn anything that a book won't teach them (in this case). A mitigating reason that this country is hellbent on being out of control PC is because people can't handle "sensitive" issues with tact.

Also because people are too sensative about issues of the past. You can't do or say anything these days that won't "offend" someone.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

in your high school?

anyhow.. go be a slave and let white people call you great person and spit on your and rape your wife and children and sell you whenever the fuck they feel like it and kill you if they feel like it

then tell us racist issues in this country are all fucked up bla bla bla

Tell us who hurt the poor wittle white people in the USA that allows them and their children to be whiny punks with no ability to see the horrors of the KKK

What got this teacher all excited about dressing kids up as NEGRO KILLERS... did it make the teacher feel proud to see his students dressed up in Georgia Pride?

You forget, No slaves from that time period in America are alive today.
But it's ok to gloss over the black people that commit genocide in Africa today, or do you not care about the black people that are alive today, just the ones in the past?
You get your history spoon fed to you by people with an agenda. The truth is, white people were slaves, Hell Irish people were treated worse than slaves. If a job was dangerous and could lead to the worker being killed, they'd send in an Irish guy to do it.
Don't act all butt hurt thinking only black people were affected by racisms.
Hell look at the Chinese. Sure they weren't "slaves" but they were treated like shit, killed, beaten and treated like garbage in the west to build the railroads. You don't hear about them bithcing and moaning and bringing up the past. They got over it and understand that to advance in life they must advance themselves. Sadly, a majority of blacks in this nation would rather blame other people on their short falls and not try to achieve anything on their own. Can't get a job. Blame Whitey. Not the fact that you talk and dress like a retard.

 

[Kappo]

It was a class on film making. (I see some posters didn't read the article. References to 'reading about it in a book' are kinda humorous given this a class on making films.)

So, the project was a film on the history of racism in the USA, a subject chosen by the students themselves. I don't see a problem with that, or how it is objectionable.

I do wonder how you would do a film on racism without portraying any racists? So, I see no problem with actors dressing up as racists (KKK) to be in a film about racism.

Looks to me like a whole bunch of (PC type) over-reaction.

Fern

Honestly, I can see the point of what she is trying to do. Letting the kids wear the costumes in the populated lunchroom is retarded. Were all those KKK members naked under those sheets? Let them change in the room... there are a ton of different ways to handle that alot better. I have no real problem with the film, but letting the kids mingle with other kids while wearing it is just stupid.

You KNOW people are going to be offended. Why stir up shit?