Loudoun Co. Virginia, teacher under fire for having high schoolers handle cotton during history lesson

[1srelluc]

Loudoun Co. teacher under fire for having high schoolers handle cotton during history lesson - WTOP News

A Virginia teacher came fire after having students handle raw cotton during a history lesson that touched on the invention of the cotton gin and enslavement.

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A Loudoun County, Virginia, teacher has come under fire after having students handle a raw piece of cotton during a history lesson that touched on the invention of the cotton gin and slavery.

The history lesson took place on Dec. 5 at Riverside High School in Leesburg.

As part of a discussion on cotton, the teacher passed a sample of raw cotton among the students, some of whom became upset.

In a letter sent to parents Friday, Principal Doug Anderson said “lessons of this nature may cause students to feel any number of emotions,” adding “some students in the class may have used the situation as a way to act in an insensitive manner.”

“This is not what we are trying to accomplish in our classrooms and we will endeavor to do better,” Andersen wrote in the letter. “Every individual is valued in Loudoun County Public Schools.”


Andersen sent another message out on Thursday addressing the incident, but he “accidentally only sent it to students,” he said in his follow-up letter.

In response to the incident, Loudoun County Public Schools said the division’s Department of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility would work hand-in-hand with the Division of Teaching and Learning to “develop further guidance” to outline situations in which lessons could be linked to trauma.

WTF?

When I was in school (Virginia History) my teacher (Mrs. Barbour, a black woman) passed out raw cotton with the seeds in to show us how hard it was to process without the Cotton Gin.

She also had cotton boils on the stem to show how hard it was to pick.

Maybe she had them singin' songs-n-shit.

 

[rightwinger]

I think it is a good lesson to show that raw Cotton is not the fluffy balls students are used to.

It was a hard, painful job

 

[sparky]

Maybe she had them singin' songs-n-shit.

sure,,,,,,,



~S~

 

[Polishprince]

I think its a good lesson for the students. Lets them see what tremendous innovation was needed to transform raw cotton into a pair of boxers. A salute to the tremendous work of Eli Whitney.

 

[1srelluc]

I can't believe they waited to HS to teach that.....Virginia History was 5th grade for a whole period.....Sadly they don't teach it anymore.....They stopped in 1995.

Virginia is poorer for it.

 

[sparky]

Perhaps the introduction of Eli Whitney's cotton gin would be better history for today's lads?

~S~

 

[Hellokitty]

We didn't have a picking cotton field trip when I was in school. Is this a southern thing or something?

 

[EMH]

Loudoun Co. teacher under fire for having high schoolers handle cotton during history lesson - WTOP News

A Virginia teacher came fire after having students handle raw cotton during a history lesson that touched on the invention of the cotton gin and enslavement.

wtop.com

A Loudoun County, Virginia, teacher has come under fire after having students handle a raw piece of cotton during a history lesson that touched on the invention of the cotton gin and slavery.

The history lesson took place on Dec. 5 at Riverside High School in Leesburg.

As part of a discussion on cotton, the teacher passed a sample of raw cotton among the students, some of whom became upset.

In a letter sent to parents Friday, Principal Doug Anderson said “lessons of this nature may cause students to feel any number of emotions,” adding “some students in the class may have used the situation as a way to act in an insensitive manner.”

“This is not what we are trying to accomplish in our classrooms and we will endeavor to do better,” Andersen wrote in the letter. “Every individual is valued in Loudoun County Public Schools.”


Andersen sent another message out on Thursday addressing the incident, but he “accidentally only sent it to students,” he said in his follow-up letter.

In response to the incident, Loudoun County Public Schools said the division’s Department of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility would work hand-in-hand with the Division of Teaching and Learning to “develop further guidance” to outline situations in which lessons could be linked to trauma.

WTF?

When I was in school (Virginia History) my teacher (Mrs. Barbour, a black woman) passed out raw cotton with the seeds in to show us how hard it was to process without the Cotton Gin.

She also had cotton boils on the stem to show how hard it was to pick.

Maybe she had them singin' songs-n-shit.

What does your hero Spanberger have to say??

 

[Crepitus]

Loudoun Co. teacher under fire for having high schoolers handle cotton during history lesson - WTOP News

A Virginia teacher came fire after having students handle raw cotton during a history lesson that touched on the invention of the cotton gin and enslavement.

wtop.com

A Loudoun County, Virginia, teacher has come under fire after having students handle a raw piece of cotton during a history lesson that touched on the invention of the cotton gin and slavery.

The history lesson took place on Dec. 5 at Riverside High School in Leesburg.

As part of a discussion on cotton, the teacher passed a sample of raw cotton among the students, some of whom became upset.

In a letter sent to parents Friday, Principal Doug Anderson said “lessons of this nature may cause students to feel any number of emotions,” adding “some students in the class may have used the situation as a way to act in an insensitive manner.”

“This is not what we are trying to accomplish in our classrooms and we will endeavor to do better,” Andersen wrote in the letter. “Every individual is valued in Loudoun County Public Schools.”


Andersen sent another message out on Thursday addressing the incident, but he “accidentally only sent it to students,” he said in his follow-up letter.

In response to the incident, Loudoun County Public Schools said the division’s Department of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility would work hand-in-hand with the Division of Teaching and Learning to “develop further guidance” to outline situations in which lessons could be linked to trauma.

WTF?

When I was in school (Virginia History) my teacher (Mrs. Barbour, a black woman) passed out raw cotton with the seeds in to show us how hard it was to process without the Cotton Gin.

She also had cotton boils on the stem to show how hard it was to pick.

Maybe she had them singin' songs-n-shit.

Some white students used it as an opportunity to make racist comments to colored children.

The teacher is under fire for not having anticipated this possibility.

Please stop misrepresenting these things.

 

[Crepitus]

We didn't have a picking cotton field trip when I was in school. Is this a southern thing or something?

It is. I went to grade school in rural Mississippi.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Loudoun Co. teacher under fire for having high schoolers handle cotton during history lesson - WTOP News

A Virginia teacher came fire after having students handle raw cotton during a history lesson that touched on the invention of the cotton gin and enslavement.

wtop.com

A Loudoun County, Virginia, teacher has come under fire after having students handle a raw piece of cotton during a history lesson that touched on the invention of the cotton gin and slavery.

The history lesson took place on Dec. 5 at Riverside High School in Leesburg.

As part of a discussion on cotton, the teacher passed a sample of raw cotton among the students, some of whom became upset.

In a letter sent to parents Friday, Principal Doug Anderson said “lessons of this nature may cause students to feel any number of emotions,” adding “some students in the class may have used the situation as a way to act in an insensitive manner.”

“This is not what we are trying to accomplish in our classrooms and we will endeavor to do better,” Andersen wrote in the letter. “Every individual is valued in Loudoun County Public Schools.”


Andersen sent another message out on Thursday addressing the incident, but he “accidentally only sent it to students,” he said in his follow-up letter.

In response to the incident, Loudoun County Public Schools said the division’s Department of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility would work hand-in-hand with the Division of Teaching and Learning to “develop further guidance” to outline situations in which lessons could be linked to trauma.

WTF?

When I was in school (Virginia History) my teacher (Mrs. Barbour, a black woman) passed out raw cotton with the seeds in to show us how hard it was to process without the Cotton Gin.

She also had cotton boils on the stem to show how hard it was to pick.

Maybe she had them singin' songs-n-shit.

If the teacher was telling students that removing cotton bolls from stems is picking cotton the teacher needs a remedial history class.

Removing bolls (they are not cotton balls) is PULLING COTTON. Picking cotton is removing the tiny seeds. The cotton gin mechanized cotton picking by quickly separating the fibers and removing the seeds.

 

[1srelluc]

Some white students used it as an opportunity to make racist comments to colored children.

The teacher is under fire for not having anticipated this possibility.

Please stop misrepresenting these things.

Just posting the article, you can read into it what you will.

 

[airplanemechanic]

I think it was a good lesson. Creative. Good on that teacher.

My ancestors owned sugar cane slave plantations. Totally different way of harvesting.

 

[Crepitus]

Just posting the article, you can read into it what you will.

Come on, mang. You and I both know what you were trying to do.

 

[1srelluc]

Come on, mang. You and I both know what you were trying to do.

Are the voices speaking to you again?

 

[Mac-7]

I think its a good lesson for the students. Lets them see what tremendous innovation was needed to transform raw cotton into a pair of boxers. A salute to the tremendous work of Eli Whitney.

Guilt-ridden white libs hate Whitney for being white

 

[Crepitus]

Are the voices speaking to you again?

You mean logic and common sense? Yes.

 

[1srelluc]

You mean logic and common sense? Yes.

You wouldn't know either if they reared-up and bit you in the ass.

 

[Seymour Flops]

In a letter sent to parents Friday, Principal Doug Anderson said “lessons of this nature may cause students to feel any number of emotions,” adding “some students in the class may have used the situation as a way to act in an insensitive manner.”

I believe that this was the real problem with that lesson as presented. It was presented to a group of student who are not disciplined, and feel free to mock a serious lesson. Just like some students in my Junior High laughed when presented information about the Holocaust, quoted conspiracy sites that claim it never happened, and called it "the Lolicaust," meaning that they LoL'd about it.

Until teachers are encouraged to disclipline students and are back up by both administrators and parents, our public schools will continue to decline.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Loudoun Co. teacher under fire for having high schoolers handle cotton during history lesson - WTOP News

A Virginia teacher came fire after having students handle raw cotton during a history lesson that touched on the invention of the cotton gin and enslavement.

wtop.com

A Loudoun County, Virginia, teacher has come under fire after having students handle a raw piece of cotton during a history lesson that touched on the invention of the cotton gin and slavery.

The history lesson took place on Dec. 5 at Riverside High School in Leesburg.

As part of a discussion on cotton, the teacher passed a sample of raw cotton among the students, some of whom became upset.

In a letter sent to parents Friday, Principal Doug Anderson said “lessons of this nature may cause students to feel any number of emotions,” adding “some students in the class may have used the situation as a way to act in an insensitive manner.”

“This is not what we are trying to accomplish in our classrooms and we will endeavor to do better,” Andersen wrote in the letter. “Every individual is valued in Loudoun County Public Schools.”


Andersen sent another message out on Thursday addressing the incident, but he “accidentally only sent it to students,” he said in his follow-up letter.

In response to the incident, Loudoun County Public Schools said the division’s Department of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility would work hand-in-hand with the Division of Teaching and Learning to “develop further guidance” to outline situations in which lessons could be linked to trauma.

WTF?

When I was in school (Virginia History) my teacher (Mrs. Barbour, a black woman) passed out raw cotton with the seeds in to show us how hard it was to process without the Cotton Gin.

She also had cotton boils on the stem to show how hard it was to pick.

Maybe she had them singin' songs-n-shit.

History in American schools? Judging by the crowd on here, I didn't think that existed cos American's knowledge of history in general is nonexistent.