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5th Grade History Lesson N-word Crossword - Sciences, Education, Art, Writing, UFO - Posted: 3rd Oct, 2007 - 4:14pm
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A crossword puzzle assigned as a homework lesson for fifth-graders studying a book about the 19th-century South asked them to use a racial slur — the N-word — as an answer
5th Grade History Lesson Uses N-word In Crossword
What do you think: Political correctness, a way to teach kids how that word was used/is used or absolutely wrong?
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| At least one parent complained and the teacher, who is white, apologized to the parents of her students, said Donald Johnson, principal of Sequatchie County Middle School. Johnson said the teacher obtained the crossword from a Web site, edHelper.com, a membership Web site that offers reading lessons, puzzles and other materials for teachers to download for use in class. No phone number or contact name was listed on the Web site. An e-mail seeking comment Tuesday was not immediately returned. A parent, Clifford Branan, said his son's teacher assigned the homework Friday, as a supplement to "Sounder," a book his class is reading. The book is commonly used in classrooms nationwide to illustrate racial bigotry and sharecropping hardships through the eyes of a young black boy. Branan said he could not believe the puzzle with words like cabin, smokehouse and lantern also included the N-word along with its clue, "17 across: An insulting way to label a black person... |
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I do not think using a crossword is a good method of discussing a sensitive word like this. I think if they were trying to educate the class on issues faced by black people during these times and were discussing names that were used as derogatory title then it would be a class discussion. That way the meaning and intent of the vocabulary could be done in a method that was less offensive.
I am sure amy would say no discussion at all but how do we get our youth to understand issues of the past and understand why we do not use such words any more.
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