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I just saw this film in class and found it absolutely fascinating. For those who haven't seen it, it's an experiment done by a third grade teacher with her class in which she divided the class into blue eyes and brown eyes. The first day the blue eyes were treated as more intelligent, more proper, and generally better than the brown eyes. The second day the brown eyes were the better ones. Apparently it took all of fifteen minutes for these children to go from being pleasent people to small monsters. I found it a very interesting approach to teaching awareness of racism.
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Oh, yes, I have heard of this. And in the Alice series they did something simular involving circles and things and hair colour. It was interesting.
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A teacher in my elementary school did something like that, but it never got beyond the playacting stage.
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This teacher only ran it for two days and then put them all back on the same level and asked them what happened. Later in the show they showed a class reunion of sorts in which they recalled the experiment where they said how they those two days affected their perception throughout their lives.
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OK, here's the new game on Hatrack. For two days, never respond in any way to a post by someone whose screenname starts with a letter between L and P.
Oh, wait ... no ... I meant ...
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No, he said screenname. So if he starts posting under "Dude" or "ScottDude", he'll be unaffected, but otherwise, you just broke the rule! Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Oh, I heard about this, but I haven't seen it!
I thought the idea was very interesting, though traumatic to the poor children. But I'd definitely like to see it at one point.
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What did the teacher do with children with green or hazel eyes? How eyeist of her not to include them.
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I had a high school sociology teacher do something like that. She did light hair vs. dark hair. It only lasted for about half the class, then we talked about what happend. It was an interesting experience.
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Thank you, KQ. It is always fun when someone lens me one of their puns. It is a good solution for making contact with me, for sure.
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I saw this a few years ago at AGS...apparently, the woman is still alive and goes around to college campuses giving guest lectures where she does the same thing--she was much more relentless with college students than with small children.
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I did a simulation basedon Ancient Roman class structure that was sort of like this. Some kids were the leaders, some were merchants, some were slaves. It was amazing how quickly those leaders started to lord it over the others.
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So, is this woman claiming she is the only teacher to have tried this? Simulations like this have been done for years.
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Well, she started doing it the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assasignated, so if she wasn't the first, she was probably one of the first. At any rate, when it hit the news it was her class.
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starlooker, it sounds like a pretty good experience, but the clip I saw drew racial boundaries and had people of color in the priveleged half. One girl couldn't take it and left in the middle of it.
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