WTF is wrong with these crap faced stupid bastards. How far does this thing have to be carried?
on 03/10/2010 at 07:23 PM
OK, Im willing to supply the Tar, So who’s got the feathers.
Oh, This is a must see video I just saw at Military Times.Not related to this Troll witch but an amazing piece of doctoring on one of our boys:
http://www.militarytimes.com/multimedia/video/?bcrefid=808163493#/Live+RPG+removed+from+soldier/51745112001Interesting.
In one sense, it was an effort to teach the children the meaning of such total cruelty. Not as an emotionally detached, intellectual lesson, but in a very personal way.
The problem is that the teachers themselves were obviously clueless about what a devastating impact even a small portion of the actions of the Third Reich could have on its victims. Additionally, limiting the lesson to the Holocaust was even more shortsighted. You should also include Armenia at the hands of the Turks, Cambodia during the time of Pol Pot, China during the “Cultural Revolution” and the Soviet Union, especially during Stalin’s reign of terror. A few seconds of thought will give you even more examples.
So, being clueless, the teachers committed emotional abuse of the children. That they didn’t stop even when it became obvious that the lesson was seriously traumatizing the students puts the cherry on top.
There’s even more to be considered. As has been pointed out, some could easily use this as a basis for anti Jewish thoughts and comments. Now, McGlynn and Stewart are certainly not Jewish names, so the thought process of creating anti Jewish sentiment from this becomes an interesting question. It therefore provides a Rorschach test of sorts, demonstrating underlying attitudes. Someday, that might be a good point to consider, however, if we continue in this direction, we will miss larger and more important issues.
That the teachers involved need to be punished for their shortsighted stupidity is obvious. Less obvious are some of the major lessons to be learned here. The first is that if you are going to simulate great cruelty, guess what? You will be committing great cruelty. In hindsight, that one is a no-brainer. Second as we sit in our comfy homes, at our desks and tables discussing this, it is easy to intellectualize, to miss, to not understand the true evil of repressive and callous regimes. That’s the same lesson the teachers missed. Ironically it was the lesson they were trying to teach.
Dr. Jeff - great points - and isn’t the point of education to make clear the reason that these events in history are evil - not to show exactly how evil feels? Leave it to emo leftists to miss the point entirely and simply repeat history - yet again.
This is nothing new. I think this kind of “teach by example” crap is inculcated at the teacher colleges.
When I was in 5th grade in Miss Kelly’s class, we had “discrimination day”, a very one sided object lesson sprung on us by surprise in which the blue eyed kids got short shrift, poor treatment, had our desks taken away, etc., all day long. Naturally I was one of that group. I was furious. The next day, when it was no longer a surprise, we did the role reversal and the brown and green eyed children got the poor treatment. This round lasted all of 15 minutes though, barely long enough for teacher to tell us about it, because that’s how long it took the principal, his office phone ringing off the hook with parent complaints and threats of legal action, to come to our classroom and put a stop to it.
But the lesson was learned. By the brown and green eyed children. That they could treat other kids like crap and get away with it. 2 years later there was still an occasional playground fight when someone got called a “bluey”.
In 7th grade our Social Studies teacher put us through an entire week of “who will survive?”, some sort of “game” in which we were all survivors of nuclear war in a fallout shelter. There were about 30 of us, and we were told that there were only long term provisions for 10, and that 10 must survive. So the altruistic response was forbidden. Parents had been sent some note in advance that they had to sign, but the lesson plan outlined on that note was far short of what actually transpired.
Lessons learned from that version of Survivor? That kids are heartless little bastards and totally superficial. We were each given a character to play, and could add some details as we saw fit. To this day I am utterly certain that the characters were handed out with forethought so that they were a reasonable match to each kid. My character, even though he had lots of useful knowledge and abilities with tools and was super smart, only managed to make it halfway through. “Write down what you know” the others told me, “then out you go.” The survivors, [sarc] by “a complete miracle” [/sarc], were the popular and pretty kids, REGARDLESS of their character’s lack of abilities. The groupthought was that the “best” genetic stock needed to be kept, along with the best social skills, since getting along later when times were tough was going to be a challenge. So I was set out to die by radiation poisoning. And I learned that my resentment of the popular kids was well founded.
Those same 10 kids went on the be class president, captains of all the sports teams, head cheerleader, and king and queen of the prom in high school.
This was more than 30 years ago. Again, parents were outraged after the fact. Letters of apology went out from the school system; “we didn’t know it would turn out this way” blah-de-blah-blah-blah.
Personally, I think, and have thought since 5th grade, that teachers are actually all sadistic fuckers with lots of built-up resentment, and that they RELISH the chance to inflict some suffering on the students. Sure, that kind of attitude is actually a job requirement for gym teachers, but the others have it too. Petty power games by small-minded petty people against the powerless. With lame excuses later IF they get caught. And I see that every day when I look closely at the leftist mindset. AND IT DOES NOT CHANGE, and is a world-wide personality disorder as this post proves.
Drew and Doc have it right but I must say, when I read this I immediately thought child abuse. Period. Maybe the idiots didn’t think they were doing that, but that was the end result. Don’t know if you folks read any of the comments that followed the article. A few ppl made points even we hadn’t thought about.
Drew, as for your experience. WOW. Things sure changed from my day to yours.
Kids are already cruel to each other by nature - they don’t need the teachers they’re supposed to trust encouraging this trait.
Perhaps Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” had it right about the British school systems.
Perhaps?
He says “perhaps” because Roger Waters definitely drank the Kool-Aid.
03/11/2010 at 01:33 AM
03/11/2010 at 06:08 PM
