Students reenact racist history with real KKK kostumes

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04 Jun 2010, 10:54 am

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The history teacher failed this lesson!! (Not thinking outside the Klan)

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It's not easy teaching history. Most students think of it as only names and dates of dead people or something so far in the past that it is not worth knowing about. So teachers are always trying new ways to make history seem alive and interesting. However, one honors history teacher in Georgia made a rather large mistake. She allowed four of her students to walk through the busy school cafeteria while garbed in Ku Klux Klan costumes.
Not surprisingly, many students found the image very, very disturbing. The students in KKK garb were working on a film about the history of racism in America and were on their way to an on-campus spot to do the actual filming when they passed through the cafeteria. The teacher has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the incident. For more information, see this CBS News article.

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04 Jun 2010, 11:04 am

Sometimes you have to be provacative in order to teach sucessfully in my opinion.

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04 Jun 2010, 11:20 am

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Sometimes you have to be provacative in order to teach sucessfully in my opinion.

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I see your point, but to walk through the hallowed halls of academia wearing racist garb, nazi uniforms, terrorwear, is inflammatory.

Perhaps in a play or stage setting this would have been seen as artisitic license. the teacher might have also alerted the school administration of her historical enactment. I do not blame the students, who were probably a bit naive, but two of the Klanners went a little overboard in character when they asked a fellow unsheeted student to participate in a lynching, according to the article.

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04 Jun 2010, 11:21 am

But our schools do not support provocative. The teacher obviously did not follow the rules and will be fired for having the nerve to actually disturb some people to get them to learn what it was like in the 60s.

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04 Jun 2010, 11:36 am

It probably wasn't the smartest way of going about it.

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04 Jun 2010, 12:39 pm

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Thats the thing about the education system, sometimes I thinks shocking things should be shown as shocking in order to illustrate the points of things. The problem is people are too afraid of how people will react, but I feel that peoploe need to know how life really is, especially when they are going through with their education. Because of how everything has to be so damn Politically correct, I see it as having an impact on this type of stuff. Students need to know how things really were, and they wont learn that if everything has to be watered down that way people don't b**** and moan like lil babies.

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04 Jun 2010, 2:01 pm

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The students in KKK garb were working on a film about the history of racism in America and were on their way to an on-campus spot to do the actual filming

Tempest in a Teapot topic, SS.

OMG! You have the same initials as a Nazi organization! How dare you! You must be ostracized immediately!

Billions upon billions of gallons of crude oil are spewed into our ocean water and still people can get upset about costumes for an amateur film. :roll:

A film being made to teach about the negative effects of racism, no less. You'd think the teacher should get an award for that.

That's commendation, not condemnation.

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04 Jun 2010, 3:02 pm

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The students in KKK garb were working on a film about the history of racism in America and were on their way to an on-campus spot to do the actual filming

Tempest in a Teapot topic, SS.

A film being made to teach about the negative effects of racism, no less. You'd think the teacher should get an award for that.

That's commendation, not condemnation.

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You have a wicked eye for detail. SS indeed. :twisted:

The oil spill concern is not lost on me. I have responsed to a few topics posted here, and I agree it is of grave concern.

I think the main issue I have with the teacher is that she did not inform the school administration what she was up to. Being in character in an unprepared setting can be unnerving and even shocking. I think her original idea was sound, but she got caught up in the exitement and neglected to give the heads up that would have saved her from condemnation. She may well be vindicated after a satisfactory explanation and a perfunctory apology, especially to the non participatroy students who were approached by "Klansmen" rallying others for a lynch mob. That was a bit too much dramatic licence. :roll:

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04 Jun 2010, 4:59 pm

As for the posters who question the validity of getting a little upset at the sight of people walking around in klansmen's garb, I guess it depends upon who is getting upset, and why. I wonder if the reaction would have been seen as something to be minimized, if several concentration camp survivors happened to notice notice several people in Nazi uniforms marching through the cafeteria, seemingly unchallenged.

OTOH, maybe it was one of those things that can be summed up with, "You had to be there."

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04 Jun 2010, 7:25 pm

:roll:
This whole thing is out of hand. So what if some history students acting in a video about the KKK passed through the cafeteria and a few feelings got bruised. Throwing the teacher under the bus is a knee-jerk response to what should be a non-issue. The whole purpose of the video they were making was NOT to promote the clan, quite the opposite.
People need to stop looking for things to hurt their feelings on and get lives.

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04 Jun 2010, 8:57 pm

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Hence why humanity needs to turn into the vulcans of start-trek fame. No more petty emotions to sidetrack everyone XD

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05 Jun 2010, 3:38 am

Why the hell would students dressed in KKK costumes walk through a crowded cafeteria? Shouldn't they have better sense than that? I almost think they were trying to shock people.

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05 Jun 2010, 4:31 am

If they want to teach racist history then I suggest that they also screen the film "Birth of a Nation"

Do they teach that after the war against the South, Negros were given the vote (fair enough) but at the same time they took the vote AWAY from any man who had served in the war?

This resulted in illiterate ex-slaves being elected to the legislature, and setting policy.

After the American war of independence England had to set up convict colonies in Australia. That is what I was taught in Australian schools.

Then I thought, "I don't remember hearing about English prisons in America".
That is because there weren't any.
They shipped them to America and SOLD them as "indentured servants" who could be flogged by their "masters" and made to do whatever whatever the master ordered.

History is never as straightforward as one might think.

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05 Jun 2010, 10:04 am

Making an educational film for the purpose of teaching a history lesson is a good idea, for those who forget history are bound to repeat it (pardon my probably inaccurate quote).

But re-enacting hatred is not a lesson. It is a golden-rule fail.

The teacher was appropriately dealt with, and if the teacher does something that stupid again then s/he should be outright fired and stripped of their teaching license.

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