remember the titans
May 21, 2013 Sociology
Extra Credit I began watching the documentary called a class divided that filmed Jane Elliot as a school teacher in the 80’s teaching a third grade class race and ethnicity issues. It deals with discrimination and documents these kids being divided and discriminated against based on their eye color. These kids rotated days being inferior and lesser of the two based on the color of their eyes and were forced to wear a collar type cloth around their neck and received less time for recess or were not being able to use the playground at all. When the blue eyed kids were told they were smarter and better a boy took advantage of it and he teased the other kids calling them brown eyed and discriminating against them. When just the day before the kid was brown eyed and it wasn’t a problem but once brought to attention it became a bigger insult. The next day the blue eyed kid didn’t wear his glasses to show his dominant blue eyes but that day it was reversed and blue eyes were seen as lesser. They didn’t like these roles being reversed and a few kids just put their heads. So I’m assuming when they were out on recess it was different because the kids would tease the other kids but once it got turned on them they changed attitudes. It was a good way to show how discrimination works being told you were inferior or not as smart overall based on something you had no choice in being born with. I think this video would be informative and entertaining for a class to watch but more so to engage in an
Extra Credit I began watching the documentary called a class divided that filmed Jane Elliot as a school teacher in the 80’s teaching a third grade class race and ethnicity issues. It deals with discrimination and documents these kids being divided and discriminated against based on their eye color. These kids rotated days being inferior and lesser of the two based on the color of their eyes and were forced to wear a collar type cloth around their neck and received less time for recess or were not being able to use the playground at all. When the blue eyed kids were told they were smarter and better a boy took advantage of it and he teased the other kids calling them brown eyed and discriminating against them. When just the day before the kid was brown eyed and it wasn’t a problem but once brought to attention it became a bigger insult. The next day the blue eyed kid didn’t wear his glasses to show his dominant blue eyes but that day it was reversed and blue eyes were seen as lesser. They didn’t like these roles being reversed and a few kids just put their heads. So I’m assuming when they were out on recess it was different because the kids would tease the other kids but once it got turned on them they changed attitudes. It was a good way to show how discrimination works being told you were inferior or not as smart overall based on something you had no choice in being born with. I think this video would be informative and entertaining for a class to watch but more so to engage in an