If teachers want change, let’s hope they go through their school boards and PTA’s and not directly to the young and impressionable without parental knowledge or consent

Teaching for Change: Social Justice In The Second Grade

- Bob Parks
Monday, April 11, 2011

Video: B&R HD Liberal Indoctrination Series http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYtI_je5 ... r_embedded

Shouldn’t we be in the process of teaching second graders to be proficient in reading and writing before teaching them how ticked off Rosa Parks was at white people?

Samuel Clover III reads excerpts from Rosa by Nikki Giovanni to his second grade class at Community Academy Public Charter School in Washington, DC. He explains why he chose this as one of the books on the Civil Rights Movement and how it challenges the myths he learned as a child about Rosa Parks. The book can be orderd from Teaching for Change’s Busboys and Poets Bookstore. For an article about the myths about Rosa Parks in children’s literature, visit the Zinn Education Project.

Most children at that age don’t see color and if they do, it shouldn’t be equated with good and evil. If this video featured white children being told how bad an ethnic minority had treated them, we all know what the outcome would be.

If teachers want change, let’s hope they go through their school boards and PTA’s and not directly to the young and impressionable without parental knowledge or consent.

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