A very interesting experiment conducted by a teacher in the 1970. Seems pretty progressive for a teach of that time.
The essence is this: she recreates segregation in her classroom by telling the kids that brown-eyed people are stupider than blue-eyed people. Brown-eyed kids aren't allowed to do certain things at recess/lunch. Later their roles are flipped.
The video is 14 minutes long but interesting from a historical context. There are a few 'N words' dropped but it's by 3rd graders in the later sixties/ early seventies.
I wonder if teachers could get away with something like this today? Many of the students seems really upset and likely the protective parents of today would being calling the school to put a stop to it before the lesson could be learned.
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Ms. Jane Elliott's "brown eyes, blue eyes" experiment in 1970 (the third one after her first in 1968). This "Eye of Storm" documentary was made by William Peters in 1970 for ABC News and later included in the documentary "A Class Divided" (1985), which included a class reunion (of 1984.)
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