Sunday, June 01, 2014

Michigan teacher suspended after segregation lesson

Michigan teacher suspended after segregation lesson | Fox News:
"A southeast Michigan public school teacher has been removed from the classroom while district officials look into whether a lesson plan on African-American history and racial segregation laws was inappropriate.
Alan Barron was placed on paid leave nearly two weeks ago after an eighth-grade history class at Monroe Middle School was shown a video of how white entertainers once used black face paint to imitate blacks, according to The Monroe News (http://bit.ly/1gPFuNY ).
An assistant principal sat in on the history class as Barron, 59, discussed Jim Crow laws and showed the video.
...Adrienne Aaron, whose daughter is in Barron's class, said he simply was teaching history and that racial segregation is a subject that should be discussed with students.
"It had nothing to do with racism. History is history," Aaron told the newspaper.
"We need to educate our kids to see how far we've come in America.
How is that racism?
"It's so sad this has happened to him.
He's one of the best teachers we've had.""

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Unbelieveable. The left hates the truth and will do anything to hide it. You would think the leftists would be hapy to have the truth taught in this instance; it shows how bad the "white man" treated the "black man" decades ago. No, the leftists would rather history is left to them to rewrite how they think it should have happened.