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#1 Zinix

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Posted 11 February 2014 - 08:56 PM

 

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Parents at P.S. 201 in Kew Gardens Hills were outraged when a technology teacher told fourth grade students they couldn't choose Malcolm X for a writing assignment about prominent black leader Malcolm X for Black History Month. "My son came home and said, 'Guess what dad, the teacher said we can't write about Malcolm X because he was quote unquote bad,'" said Frank Brown, a parent. Unlike Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X rejected non-violence and said black people should respond to racism by any means necessary to achieve their rights. He was assassinated in 1965. Brown says his son has read this book about Malcolm X many times, and he and his wife just bought another copy for the teacher. Parents say the teacher acknowledged using the words "bad" and "violent" but said she felt information about Malcolm she found on a website was not age appropriate.

"My son came home with that negative stain on his brain that Malcolm X was a bad, violent man," said Angel Minor, a parent. City Councilman Andy King of the Bronx, who co-chairs the Council's black, Latino and Asian caucus, says the teacher failed to consider all aspects of Malcolm X's life. "He was a great leader, orator and spiritual leader not just for black Americans but people around the globe. So that is the conversation you have to lead 9-year-old brains to," King said. On Monday morning parents and legislative leaders met with the principal and teacher at P.S. 201 and were happy to hear an assembly will be held for all fourth graders, where the teacher is expected to apologize. "This is day one of healing and as we move forward we will get back to this matter and see where we are from here," Brown said.

"As the technology teacher she should have did better research and with that research chose a better selection of words," Minor said. As for those papers on prominent black leaders, the parents say their boys will be writing about Malcolm X not only to further educate themselves, but also their teacher.

 

 

Seems illogical. 

 


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Posted 11 February 2014 - 10:30 PM

The economy is down, the higher education is a joke, healthcare system needs to be reformed, billions of dollars sucked out of taxpayers are spent on oil warfare and propaganda, not on improving the quality of life and urban infrastructure. And media would rather focus on some teacher from some NYC school or on whom Rebecca Black or Justin Bieber is dating. All hail Murrica !


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Posted 11 February 2014 - 11:13 PM

Racist month anyway.

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Posted 14 February 2014 - 07:27 AM

It doesn't matter if you think Malcolm X was good or bad, he's still an extremely prominent part of Black History in America, and the kid definitely should have been allowed to write a report on him, but I can't shake the fact both the parents and the teacher were in the wrong. A teacher shouldn't push their opinions on a kid about a historical figure and the parents shouldn't push their opinions on the teacher. Also it seems the parents are being a bit too vocal on it, having a whole assembly where the teacher apologizes is a bit excessive, you could have just done a private meeting and be done with it.


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Posted 14 February 2014 - 04:35 PM

He should probably move on and write on another controversial person, like Colin Ferguson or OJ Simpson.


Edited by stardust, 14 February 2014 - 06:29 PM.





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