A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School

[Blue_Tires]

165. Yeah, this is starting to reek

and how has no one addressed this?

When the white teachers began to pass out pamphlets and packets, they expect us the black students to read the directions, complete it, and hand it in for a grade. The reality of this is that most of my peers cannot read and or comprehend the material that has been provided.

Way to smear your own race... It didn't escape my notice that she relate none of her own specific life experiences -- Hell, she doesn't even mention herself outside of the opening, but there are a whole lotta wide, sweeping generalizations on "white teachers" and "black students"...

And exactly WTF is she saying, because she's all over the place rhetorically...What is her ultimate point?

1. Teachers are unqualified to teach effectively?
2. Teachers know how to teach effectively, but choose not to out of indifference or racism?
3. White teachers can't teach minority students?
4. Students are too dumb to learn?
4a. Are students too dumb to learn because of bad curricula, indifferent teachers or institutional racism?
5. The curriculum set by the state is a jumbled mess and has no practical real-world purposes?

Also, I know this sounds silly, but did she actually read the whole book or just scan it to find a passage she could write about? I just ask because there are much bigger themes in the book, and she chose a rather curious one to latch onto, and her essay doesn't have the first sign that she read or understood the wider narrative...

Another dead giveaway this is probably a RW smear is the GOP meme of "everything bad in education is the fault of those overpaid teachers" while completely ignoring the importance of committed parental involvement...