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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t want public school teachers teaching race or white privilege to my non-white kids, are you kidding me? I barely trust them to teach essay writing. [/quote]

One of my public school teachers, who insisted their class of 10th graders watch Roots from start-to-finish, absolutely changed my life and perspective on society.

Its about exposure not necessarily having the Cicero of educators teaching you at every level. [/quote]

Right, that's showing a professionally created work of art to 10th graders.  I sadly agree with PP that teachers are terribly suited to be teaching about race and from what I overheard, did it in an extremely clumsy way.  I suspected that it might have been particularly painful for the non-white kids.  Teaching the basics about MLK and some discussion of current events, probably necessary and appropriate for 3rd graders. But it was a truly endless discussion of "black people are treated so badly! racism is so bad!" without any context, for months.  But at the end of the day, this is really an argument for better teaching about race, not absurdities like the Georgia stuff. [/quote]

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