If your 5 year old is already racially biased you are the only one to blame; whether it’s your (lack of) parenting skills or others surrounding your home/child/life – PB/TK
Your five-year-old is already racially biased. Here’s what you can do about it – By Andre Grant-Thomas / June 16 2017
Administrators at Fox Chapel Middle School in Spring Hill, Florida recently fired a teacher who gave her sixth graders an assignment asking them to consider how “comfortable” they would be in the company of various people. Some of the 41 scenarios identified these “others” in terms of race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion.
For example: Your new roommate is a Palestinian and Muslim.
A group of young Black men are walking toward you on the street. The young man sitting next to you on the airplane is an Arab. Your new suitemates are Mexican. Your assigned lab partner is a fundamentalist Christian.
Many Fox Hill students and parents were upset. “They’re kids. Let kids be kids. Why are they asking kids these questions?” one mother to a seventh-grade student wondered. “I just don’t think it’s something that needs to be brought in school.”
Continue to qz.com article: https://qz.com/1005914/your-five-year-old-is-already-racially-biased-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it/
