6th Grade Teacher Suspended for Having Students Perform Michael Brown Death Skit
You really have to scratch your head when something like this happens.
What was the teacher thinking?
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reported.
Teacher On Leave After Instructing Sixth Graders To Perform Michael Brown DEATH SKIT
Officials at Brantley Elementary School in Selma, Ala. placed a sixth-grade teacher on paid administrative leave on Wednesday after he directed his students to reenact the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Brown, a resident of Ferguson, Mo., died on Aug. 9 after a police officer, Darren Wilson, shot him a number of times.
The reenactment came to light on Tuesday after Jessica Baughn, the mother of an 11-year-old Brantley Elementary student, complained about it on Sound Off Selma, a Facebook page, reports The Selma Times-Journal.
According to Baughn, the unidentified teacher instructed students to research the details of Brown’s death. Where did it happen? How many times did he get shot?
As local school district superintendent Don Willingham later explained, the sixth-grade children then presented a skit about the incident in class. Willingham noted that the Ferguson shooting initially came up in class because the teacher was discussing current events.
According to Baughn, the teacher asked his charges to construct fake paper guns. For bullets, he had his charges use little wads of paper. Baughn’s son, a white kid named Jimmy Griffin, was the shooter in the skit.
Not content with one racially-charged murder scene, the teacher also had students perform a reenactment of the 2012 incident when George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin.
Black kids played both Brown and Martin, notes the Advertiser.
Baughn was appalled.
“I picked him up from school and I could tell something was bothering him. Then he started telling me what happened,” she told the Montgomery Advertiser. “Why would you have sixth-grade students who are 11 years old reenact violence like that? I just don’t understand.”
Teacher On Leave After Instructing Sixth Graders To Perform Michael Brown DEATH SKIT (The Daily Caller)
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Schools suspend children for biting a Pop Tart into what is allegedly a “gun shape” (aka a right angle), and this teacher tells them to make fake guns out of paper?!?! And wadded paper to be used for bullets?!?! If it was a kid, they’d be expelled under “zero tolerance” – and this guy get’s a paid vacay. What a farce!!
On another note – why is the race of the teacher not mentioned? Why is the name of the teacher withheld? In Alabama, of all places (home of George Wallace), you’d think the racial components of ALL involved would be noted……kind of like identifying the party of a pol involved in a scandal! What-oh, yeah…. If the person’s race is not mentioned, then they must not be white; follows the same logic that if the party of the pol isn’t mentioned, he/she must be a Democrat.
Could the race of the teacher have been a contributing factor as to why the teacher had them do this? Or is it not PC (i.e. raaaacist) to ask such a question?
Sorry for the rant. I am just fed up with this nonsense. The left is constantly dividing, planting seeds of hate and discontentment, and we are forever being made to feel guilty for this nation’s history – even though we are the ONLY nation that has fought a war to STOP SLAVERY, and the only nation (to my knowledge) to PEACEFULLY PASS CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS TO ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION based on race.
Alveda King was on Hannity last night, and was absolutely right when she said we need PEACE first, then JUSTICE. No one should feel they need to steal, or that they are ENTITLED to take whatever they want without paying for it; but our bass-ackwards upside-down federal gov’t that loves to hand out freebies and goodies (aka redistribution of wealth – our tax dollars!) only teaches people to expect a handout, that they are entitled.