Jane Elliott's Class Divided

America, the land of opportunity, is it really the place you want to be? The United States has a history with discriminating against those who do not meet their definition of pure. There are still small pockets of prejudice set out in the United States. Class Divided is a documentary about a third grade teacher, Jane Elliott, who created psychological experiment to teach her students demoralizing experience of being discriminated against by their own classmates. Jane Elliott divided her class by eye colors, brown and blue eyes, giving priority to one group and making the other inferior. Once a nice group of kids were now outright monsters discriminating their own friends. In the next day, Jane Elliott switches the inferior group with those given priority. And the whole act of discrimination reversed, and those who were discriminating the day before were being discriminated against. This showed those in power will use it at their advantages against others with lesser privileges. Jane Elliott’s gave her class a test to the class and found those given priorities excelled. The data was then sent to Stanford University to be analyzed, however psychologists at Stanford were unable to
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