San Antonio school teacher ask students to list positives of slavery

[Pancho 45574]

I wonder what goes through the mind of an educator when they create such assignments.  

 

[Shut up Lou Holtz 2090]

Charter school eh? One of those that you don’t need a real teaching certification to teach and make the parents pay for it??? This is ridiculous. Has the school commented and given any reason for the assignment?

[Shut up Lou Holtz 2090]

Also, the kid said rape twice 

[Beau Vine 55038]

Didn't some dumbass teacher in another state give the exact same assignment and cause a national kerfuffle several months ago?

[Parliament 14413]

They don't hafta pay taxes or balance a checkbook.

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4980]

Nah, it's just like where renting you pay property taxes, only its included in your rent. There taxes came out of their food and shelter. Not sure that counts as a positive.

[phdhorn 6224]

They didn't have TV's so they weren't subjected to "Housewives of..." shows and anything Kardashian.

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

It got them out of shithole African countries, amirite?

Edited April 22, 2018 by ImissWallyPryor

[TwiceHorn 31705]

I mean, I suppose it could be an academic exercise in showing that there aren't any?

 

But that worksheet.  "A Balanced View"?  Really?

Edited April 22, 2018 by TwiceHorn

[Brisketexan 105701]

I mean, I suppose it could be an academic exercise in showing that there aren't any?
 
But that worksheet.  "A Balanced View"?  Really?

Free Atlantic cruise!

Free room and board upon arrival! Just like in the brochures!


Sheesh.

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4980]

And also they got to learn about Jesus!

[SpiralOut 1867]

3 hours ago, Shut up Lou Holtz said:

Also, the kid said rape twice 

[Bozo_Casanova 26690]

I mean, I suppose it could be an academic exercise in showing that there aren't any?
 
But that worksheet.  "A Balanced View"?  Really?

Both sides! /Anastasis


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[Izhmash 563]

At first I was thinking that free labor would actually be a positive.  But I guess the negative is you have to hire expensive men to constantly manage and keep them in line.

[TexArcher 38449]

3 hours ago, Pancho Negro said:

I wonder what goes through the mind of an educator when they create such assignments.  

The Aggie War Hymn?

[Heavy 6 68]

The Pyramids?

[UTCzech III 2917]

In America you'll get food to eat
Won't have to run through the jungle and scuff up your feet
You'll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day
It's great to be an American

 

Ain't no lions or tigers ain't no mamba snake
Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake
Everybody is as happy as a man can be
Climb aboard little wog sail away with me

 

Sail away sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay

 

In America every man is free
To take care of his home and his family
You'll be as happy as a monkey in a monkey tree
You're all gonna be an American

 

Sail away sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay

[TwiceHorn 31705]

To that end, I suppose you could argue that being in the US and receiving the full measure of US citizenship 150-200 years later beats living the tribal life in Ghana or the Ivory Coast. 

[Johnny Sack 8397]

Benefited USA Summer Olympics. 

[Johnny Sack 8397]

6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

To that end, I suppose you could argue that being in the US and receiving the full measure of US citizenship 150-200 years later beats living the tribal life in Ghana or the Ivory Coast. 

If you’re going that route and they were slaves in Africa, was being a slave in the USA a better lifestyle than being an African slave?  Regardless, almost no doubt it was a huge benefit to their currently living descendants.  

I’m not opposed to critical thinking assignments requiring students to create arguments to defend indefensible positions.  Like being assigned as the attorney to defend Ted Bundy against the death penalty. 

[F250 28991]

5 hours ago, Pancho Negro said:

I wonder what goes through the mind of an educator when they create such assignments.  

 

The teacher likely pulled the assignment right out of the teachers version of that textbook without much thought.

 

 

[KaiserSoze 1000]

Nope. An article I read this morning had a statement from the publisher that the assignment/worksheet is not one provided as part of their materials.

[Aqua Buddha 14671]

There were some positive benefits to the slave holders and the economy of the Southern States, after all.  Benefits to the slaves themselves?  Not hardly.  

[TwiceHorn 31705]

There are no hungry lions in Alabama or Mississippi?

[RDCanecutter 26570]

I figure this teacher was on the jagged edge, and just didn't know how to resign.

[Brisketexan 105701]

There are no hungry lions in Alabama or Mississippi?

There were panthers. And the threat of being eaten by one was used by slave owners to discourage runaways. And that story/cautionary tale continued to influence behavior into the 1990s. I went on a deer hunt on the MS/La border in 1990 or so, and one of the camp hands was complaining about how his co-worker (a local black man) wouldn’t spend a night out on a bulldozer so they could finish a job first thing: “no way, there’s panther in the swamp.”

There hasn’t been a panther there in 100 years.

But the scary story told to slaves 150 years before was still being passed on.

There you go, CSB.

[Johnny Sack 8397]

1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

There were some positive benefits to the slave holders and the economy of the Southern States, after all.  Benefits to the slaves themselves?  Not hardly.  

Would you rather be a slave in Africa or Georgia?

[Johnny Sack 8397]

And it was a benefit to their descendants. Being born black in the USA is much better than being born in Africa. 

[TexArcher 38449]

6 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

Would you rather be a slave in Africa or Georgia?

If only there were some other option.

[David Dennison 19140]

31 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

And it was a benefit to their descendants. Being born black in the USA is much better than being born in Africa. 

Still not as good as being born the grandson of a millionaire white man in the USA.

[Aqua Buddha 14671]

36 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

Would you rather be a slave in Africa or Georgia?

What's the difference?

[Surly Bevo 25542]

34 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

And it was a benefit to their descendants. Being born black in the USA is much better than being born in Africa. 

I'm sure if you were working in a field from sun up, past sun down in humid as fuck Alabama picking cotton and getting your ass kicked when you so much as looked sideways that the thought that would constantly cross your mind is "gee isn't it going to be great in the next era when my lineage is born in to all of this, thanks massa I sure is lucky"

[Johnny Sack 8397]

3 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

I'm sure if you were working in a field from sun up, past sun down in humid as fuck Alabama picking cotton and getting your ass kicked when you so much as looked sideways that the thought that would constantly cross your mind is "gee isn't it going to be great in the next era when my lineage is born in to all of this, thanks massa I sure is lucky"

You think there life in Africa was better?  Slaves were taken by conquest from warring tribes.  You think the conquering African tribal leaders treated the defeated better than southern plantation owners?  Or maybe you think they were better off being shipped to the Caribbean or Brazil?

It was lose - lose once they got captured by their opponent.

[Pancho 45574]

49 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

Would you rather be a slave in Africa or Georgia?

There’s another option.  Not being a slave at all. 

[David Dennison 19140]

2 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

You think there life in Africa was better?  Slaves were taken by conquest from warring tribes.  You think the conquering African tribal leaders treated the defeated better than southern plantation owners?  Or maybe you think they were better off being shipped to the Caribbean or Brazil?

It was lose - lose once they got captured by their opponent.

Ungrateful pricks.

[elfenix 34396]

5 hours ago, SpiralOut said:

thanks, roethlisberger

[Deej 77298]

"The black is a better athlete to begin with because he's been bred to be that way, because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back, and they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs and he's bred to be the better athlete because this goes back all the way to the Civil War when during the slave trade … the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have a big black kid."

[Guest]

If you're a slave, are you safe from being drafted by the Cleveland Browns?

[woohorn 1131]

And it was a benefit to their descendants. Being born black in the USA is much better than being born in Africa. 

I'll bet you got an "A" in Social Studies when you were at Great Hearts Monte Vista North.

[Anastasis 23520]

9 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Both sides! /Anastasis
 

I expect more from you.  Perhaps wrongly. 

[po elvis 2098]

that sheet does not say list the positive aspects of slavery, which would be easy to come up with a bunch. it says positive aspects of "Life of Slaves" which is very different and hard to come up with any. 

reading comprehension is very hard.

[Mole 4338]

What a peculiar assignment.

[David Dennison 19140]

1 hour ago, po elvis said:

that sheet does not say list the positive aspects of slavery, which would be easy to come up with a bunch. it says positive aspects of "Life of Slaves" which is very different and hard to come up with any. 

reading comprehension is very hard.

What are the positive aspects of slavery?

[Mole 4338]

It depends on if you're the slave or the slaveholder.

[JohnnyRage 1617]

All the cotton one could eat.

[gsoda3 3315]

why is this assignment upsetting?  i don't think the teacher's advocating for slavery...

[Coelenterate Fuccboi 13176]

5 hours ago, David Dennison said:

What are the positive aspects of slavery?

We’d have to ask the slaves who continued to work under the same masters once freed. Only, they’re all dead.

Edit. Almost forgot about Allison Mack’s cult members.

Edited April 23, 2018 by Casual Encounter

[gecko 1104]

Paid health and dental but the 401k sucked.

[HenryJames 66371]

8 hours ago, David Dennison said:

What are the positive aspects of slavery?

Stop Rocko from posting on Surly?

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

I think the teacher was just looking for some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies. Her contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities—especially in the southern colonies—could most aptly be characterized as agrarian pre-capitalistic.