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In the PBS documentary called "A Class Divided", examines at a two-day experiment conducted by a third-grade teacher, Jane Elliot, in Iowa. The horrific day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Jane Elliot knew that preaching to her third graders against discrimination wasn’t nearly enough. Ms. Elliot asks her students, “What is brotherhood?” The students answered with the golden rule and also said it is about treating everyone like they are your brother. She then asked her students,“ Is there anyone in this United Stated that we don’t treat as our brothers?” The children answered black people and the Indians. The students responded to the teacher’s next question, “ What kinds of things do people say about these people? One of the

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