Melvindale Students Forced to Act as Slaves in Honor of Black History

[De'troiter]

I think the child and her mother are out of line. The teacher said they were to imagine themselves as slavesand write about it. Do you belive everything your child ssays when he/she comes home from school? The school is saying the assignment is approrpriate. National commentators are saying it is appropropriate. The child is in 6th grade.

It doesn't matter, if the child and his parents were offended, than they were offended, nothing you just stated changes that. At the very least the child should have been accomodated with another assignment. This is another example why children in DPS score less on stardardized tests than children is other districts. What is a cultural norm for children in Detroit, is not the same as a cultural norm as children in Grosse Pointe. It is the responsibility of the schools to create material that suites the needs of the child in which they are trying to educate. Just because the school and the country says that something is appropiate for the majority doesn't mean that is appropriate for the minority. The nation believed that segregation was appropriate, the nation also believe that women and minorities were not equal to white men, etc. Just because the majority doesn't give a care about the emotions and cultural implications of minorities doesn't mean that they don't exist.

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It doesn't matter, if the child and his parents were offended, than they were offended, nothing you just stated changes that. At the very least the child should have been accomodated with another assignment.

You don't get it. It's not racist until SWMAP agrees that it is racist. The black child and his black mother aren't the ones who get to decide what is racist and how to react. No, some anonymous non-black person on an internet forum gets to decide what racism is and how these black people should react to it.