Teacher sorry for binding girls in slavery lesson

[Niels Bohr 72]

I still stand on my views. History tends to repeat itself over time because people do forget. The US is still very young compared to the ROMAN empire. So, anything could happen.

However, there so much excess baggage in the way that blinds people of what it means to diversify, and come to mutual understanding. Noone will know what the truth is. Documentaries doesn't quite express emotions the same way as demonstrations.

I can say just this. The US consists of average people and average citizens because everyone has very low expectations for each citizens. Heck, nobody realizes that the computer they're using or the car their using are built in the worst case scenerio. Meaning that it's build to run only. Not much performance tweaks. However, the vehicles can be tweaked so much more. Same applies with computers. The reason why they build stuff in such a way is that they want to make sure the users or operators don't mess up the car or computer. This is the mentality of designers believing that the users and operators will do something dumb to the car, therefore, they have to build it at the very barebones without performance tweaks.

Edited December 7, 2008 by Niels Bohr

[panamania79 2]

This teacher didn't do anything wrong. By making demonstrations about history events, it would be very effective at showing what should not be repeated. Over time, as history have told us, that society forget about the past and continue to repeat them year after year.

Maybe if he would have used a white student, this wouldn't been the problem. However, it's still a problem unless people learn to differentiate the past with the present.

Nothing wrong?

I guess you're gonna tell me OJ was innocent too?

This teacher BOUND two students. Before we even get into the matter of race, let's just look at the basic essential expectation of a responsible teacher.

There is no reason for an educator to BIND children, unless they're giving Guantanomo Bay security classes.

Now let's take it a step further. Should we teach about the Holocaust by having students get naked and pretend they're in a shower?

Should we teach about 911 by having students pretend to jump out of buildings? How about bringing some booze to class or having a field trip to a tavern to discuss prohibition?

There's a certain time for "hands on" education, and for all other times, there are hundreds if not thousands of learning aids that in the proper hands

would be MUCH more effective and NOT have to physically or psychologically injure anyone.

There was nothing right about what the teacher did. Truly poor judgement.