Jane Elliot: Discrimination In Schools

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Jane Elliott a third grade teacher in Iowa, was trying to teach her third grade students about discrimination. She did a two-day experience where she split the entire class into two groups: blue eyes people and brown eyes people. On Tuesday she told the class that blue eyes people are better at everything and they have more privileges. Like more recess, can drink right from the fountain, may have seconds during lunch and blue eyes people can not play with brown eyes people. Towards the end of the day, brown eyes people didn’t like the blue eyes people because they where being bullies. Towards the end the blues eyes people wuld call them mean names like “brown eyes”. Then on Wednesday, Mrs. Elliot changed it up. She told the students that she

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