Virginia school addresses 'segregation game' targeting Asian American student
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- Administrators at a Virginia school say a "segregation game" that targeted an Asian American 5th grader was "inappropriate" role play following a social studies lesson. WRC's Aimee Cho reports.
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Middle School kids are NOT too young to understand EXACTLY what they are doing.
Well according to america and the south, you can’t teach racism or anything. Ban all books and censor eveyrthing. Yay freedom! lol
Young kids learn from what are taught at home, school and society so it's important to teach them according
They are not the problem the parents are toxic, you are redirecting blame from the people who produced the kids onto the kids who are not getting the right guidance..you are an enabler of abuse if you don't see the problem with blaming kids for the failure of adults
You are an enabler of parents raising kids like this, blame the parents for teaching the kids to hate rather than the kids who get these ideas from the people raised them..if it's acceptable in the house then kids do it at school...you are participating in misdirected blame
@@48laws45Exactly this. I still remember the first time I became aware that black people were “different” or “other” as a child. I was at church at a gathering of people from all the area churches, so we had the first black people that I ever experienced in my own social group because my local church had no one who wasn’t white in it in my life up to that point. I had only seen them on TV or in public. It was another one of the white church members who said something that I overheard that suddenly introduced me to the idea that black people were not the same as white people, and it shifted the way I saw the world from that moment forward.
No one could even have countered that, because no one knew it even happened. The change was subtle, too, so it wouldn’t have been noticed, especially if there were any latent or overt racism or bigotry in my own church because that would mask it even further. It took many years before I had the insight on my own to recognize that memory for what it was - my introduction to the root of racism and bigotry, and even knowing about it isn’t enough to erase the damage it did - there is still all the subconscious influence it’s had over my thinking for my whole life that’s very difficult to overcome and eliminate, because of course it is unconscious and I’m not even aware of its influence, sometimes even when I’m looking for it.
There is nothing different about children today - they are all born knowing nothing, learning everything from those around them. That makes it impossible to condemn a young person without damning a whole community of adults who were there in their lives and who failed to teach the young person appropriately. Every failing of a youth is a failure of the adults who came before them.
That doesn't sound like a game.
I agree it doesn't sound like a game at all
This was done outside of the classroom it sounds like. The game is played inside the classroom and you aren’t the race or whatever demographic group that you actually are - you’re assigned one for the purpose of the game. Otherwise the very people who need the lesson will never be able to learn it, while all the kids who already know, would just suffer even more.
Of course it was a game. The asian's just weren't invited. They never are unfortunately.
Looks like the teacher failed to mention that segregation was wrong and hurtful when teaching about it. Lesson fail.
Parents FAILED.
It doesn't mean they will listen..
@@DrownedinbloodAnd that’s the purpose of the game - to reach the kids who won’t listen by having them experience it. This was not played the way the “game” was meant to be played, though. In the game, you aren’t the race that you actually are - you become the minority if you’re the majority and vice versa. The idea is for those who don’t experience the bigotry to experience what the bigotry is like themselves, to make up for any empathy gaps that prevent them from just understanding it by seeing someone else experience it.
It's not harmful when it's voluntarily self imposed...my life is quiet and calm because I do self segregate. It has benefitted me greatly.
the school must be proud in nurturing future racists
when i learned about segregation, i didn't need a guest speaker to tell me it was painful and hurt. neither did my classmates. if they need that, sounds like theyre building future sociopaths. the lack of empathy a trait, right?
I agree with you completely. This happened to me as well as other kids who had intellectual disabilities
These are kids with “bad” families. Families who will insist they’re not bad. They lack the very insight necessary to recognize that they are the problem, and so it carries on down through the generations.
Nah. This is what CRT does, it separates the kids by race
@@Catherine.Dorian. 😂😂🤣🤣😭😭 you made my day writing that ignorant so far from reality comment. thank you. I know you wrote it to make me laugh and I appreciate it. thanks. it always made me laugh when I'd hear the ultra un-educated (likely borderline illiterate) loud mouths espousing their deluded ideas about a graduate level framework for ANALYZING laws and policies and attempt to make it something other than what it was. the best part about their delusion was, it would take them 5 seconds to GOOGLE what it was... but they dont bc illiterate and ignorant ya know?
anyway, thank you for that laugh.
@@jusletursoulglobaby You’re going to call me illiterate with those English skills? How about you edit that and write properly, then try again and use actual examples rather than a word vomit that says nothing while trying to make you look intelligent
The school is called “traditional academy”, sounds about right
That was my first thought. Wth does that even mean anyway?
Northern Virginia........not surprised.
Exactly! Learned it from their parents! Well, I live in Las Vegas, those white kids would be the minority here! But still be exepted❤
Oh really? I went to a predominantly white school in NoVA and no one was ever racist. It's just that people might make fun of you for being quiet, regardless of your race
NOT AT ALL!!
As an Asian American living in NoVA all my life, i never experienced blatant racism in NoVA lol. It’s literally the safest region in America. There are way more angry and racist people in Baltimore or DC from my experience lol
@@Jen-cv1ul sounds about white pilgrim
Not only the school community but PARENTS have a responsibility to ensure that their children act right
Agree, it's all start how parents teach their children 😅
They won’t stop until they know how it feels. Growing is Painful for everyone.
Grew up in MD years ago. We only had 10 Asian people in our suburb. No Latino people. About 10-15% black.
No one in school ever made fun of me. This one kid physically attacked me once in class and my friend jumped in. I think that was more because he was from a "kids home" rather than racial though. It was more common outside of school. Random people saying stuff. My friends always stuck up for me.
By the time we got to high school, we did have a relatively large ESL program. We must have been a magnet school for ESL because I don't remember all the students living in the suburb.
(We did have real segregation. No one ever spoke about it though. I didn't even realize it until I moved away and asked my Dad out of curiosity one day why all the black people lived in one area of the suburb.)
Northern Virginia residents downplay how bigoted their state (excuse me, Commonwealth), is.
I’m hapa and commuted from Maryland to a couple of Virginia jobs a few years ago. Virginians are so used to it they don’t think it’s real or an issue. The NoVa economy is flush with too much $$$ to acknowledge or care about these “high south” problems.
Nah there's no way they would physically attack you for being from a foster place. You are very lucky imo to not have had to deal with harassment and violence on a frequent basis.
@@Drownedinblood You transposed it. The attacker was from a "kids home" (orphanage). And, I was a pretty good kid back then and was nice to everyone. He just randomly attacked me in the classroom. It was in 6th grade.
Edit: just looked on Google Maps. Still there.
@@DrownedinbloodYou misread - it was the attacker who was from the kids’ home, not the commenter.
@@x77punk77xIntriguing
This is an educational failure.
Sue the school, the kids, their parents and get the local rep involved. Insane how the school is trying to protect the little gremlins and cant even say if they punished them or not.
I wish this story actually explained what they mean by "a game:.
You're supposed to arbitrarily hand out cards assigning them to one imaginary group or another and then segregate them.
But children already do this on playgrounds for fun, creating clubs and then chasing others away, so I'm not sure if they'll really get the message.
Virginia! Yep! Virginia is STILL Virginia!
isn't it a typical Y T behaviour ?
remember the 50's in a merica, and those poor dissapearing Native American people and their culture...
Almost like there's a reason for it 🙃
With the amount of crime nowadays i dont hate the 1950s like i did 10 years ago
Kids mirroring the behavior, empathy (or lack thereof), and EQ of the adults raising them is a constant as old as time. Native American culture is American culture.
Ah so by traditional they mean teaching racism
If they wanted to play that game, I would get everybody else togheter and leave the ghosts alone 😆
No one taught them to be nice apparently
They need to sue the school, this is hate
So the school wants to foster thinking before speaking, but they didn't think before they spoke to start this experiment, to notify and warn the student body and their parents?
Yeah only after the fact but the damage has been done. Asian Americans know why Asian history isn't being taught or "DEI" is only for non-Asians.
I’m not being a racist, this is for research purposes, you know?? Jeez, don’t be so narrow minded
This activity appears in the media at least once a year. Show the kids “ The Color of Friendship” and hold a discussion.
So they are keeping with Tradition?
Sorry, blame the parents of them students
This happened in a small town.
Caused some students to feel uncomfortable, because some kids were being racist jerks.
That is not a game. That is not how you should be teaching those lessons. Middle school kids know better than that, they aren't idiots. That being said I can speak to the Virginia school system and how much education they put into tolerance and multicultural lessons, clearly not enough.
way to prime and breed more "virginia tech."
You just know their parents are MAGA
Diversity is not our strength and you know it
Uhh it was democrats that did segregation not maga
@@sew_gal7340All different parties were actually involved in segregation even Whig party members and Federalist Party members who had to pick a side or not be on any side.
This doesn’t surprise me. I was a babysitter in Oldtown Alexandria 2008 and I was at that school playground a lot and that feeling of segregation was felt then. I’m glad someone did something and exposed that school but I believe this kids learn this at home 🏠 like most things
The irony that most of these kids will end up in the same high school that remember the titans was based on
its alrite,wen its al white...
Well I certainly hope the media is proud of itself. They played a large part in creating this environment.
Wait, what?
The media created racists? There was racial steering in my childhood suburbs until 20-30 years ago.
Racism existed long before any media organizations. It's the fault of parents.
This is 2024 this shows the lack re education ppl have they r not able to leave seeing military has all races and cultures so the lost cause is trying to come back
There's so much focus on race in the United States. Its getting harder and harder as people continue to mix, now people are "identifying" with fractions just to keep it going
Pretty normal there, ehh?
what do you expect, woman? you’re in a conservative state 😐
Northern Virginia is more progressive area and they were in a blue county. We still have backwards thinking people around the area.
This happens worse in liberal states, what are you smoking?
@@sew_gal7340 Virginia is purple state now. We are not a liberal state especially when people voted in a Republican mayor.
It is worse in liberal states
@@soupdrinker Virginia isn’t a liberal state. It’s a purple state now due to the divide between both major political parties but Virginia residents still voted in a Republican mayor.
1950s again...😢
The isolated places
I don't think it is the school or teachers' fault, honestly. I teach middle school students, and I do not tolerate any racist or sexist comment/offense in my classroom, but some of the kids (6th graders most of the time) have no clue how to be respectful of others cultures or genders. They say something offensive and then say, oh no, it's just a joke. I tell them that if someone is upset, that is not a joke, but they do not understand that. I think that they see these jokes on social media and repeat them.
Sounds like what they show on movies and also like the parents are racists and they learn that at home
Oh for the
How is this “news,” though?
who initiated the game?
Whites of course
the students?
CCP
I think it was the LGBTQ group?
@@elgastsos210
You jealous, envious, or turned on?
Don’t you dare all kids are nice
This mustve not sit well with the half asian kids mom who wanted her kids to be white.
Well half Asians look ugly
So let them kids going to be kids
Half asian
Biden's America smh. I regret voting for him.
America was always like that.... Trump won't do anything
So let’s make this a news item. Ffs. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
They wuz
Kangs
Kids that young don’t need to be learning about all that. They are too young. Wait until high school when they are more mature. Just teach them the basics of respect for all.
Respect for whites
I had a job when I was 11.
Geez, grow up dude. Kids are exposed to even more with internet. I only had books, magazines and newspapers at that age.
Edit: just googled. It's a K-5 school. I stand corrected. And, depends on the class level.
Is it wrong to not teach kids to discriminate?
Good for him because the Asian kids think because some yts call them model minority they like them also….
How come Japan doesn't have these problems?
They do it’s a homogeneous society with specs of foreigners
Because Japan is for Japanese people not whites
You don't know what you are talking about. Kids from different minorities go through some of the worst bullying in Japan.
Team up with the black kids
why is the title abt asian americans when african americans were sat all the way in the back huhh
The other students didn’t segregate.
The kid is half Asian. That was mentioned in a news article, but not here.
I still remember watching all of the recorded news reports, videos of speeches and listening to radio broadcasts of Joe Biden promising to re introduce segregation if he were to be elected in his first political position. Good thing he was never able to provide his promises or kids would still be segregated today.
Woke
I wish we were segregated. Be nice but stay separate. If you choose to mix it up, that should be fine as well.
Uhh no
Well in some ways segregation might be helpful for asians considering asian majority schools always produce the most hardworking and succesful pupils in the country.
Oof
Good job, now you taught children how to segregate. Some topics should be left alone and buried in the history.
I vehemently disagree with your idea of things being buried in the past. However, there is such a thing as age appropriate lessons. Just doesn't seem this was done in an appropriate manner in any way.
That’s what I’m saying. This stupid DEI has brought race back to the surface. Idiots
You are delusional. Your concept is that ignorance is best rather than knowledge. A majority of people learn these lessons growing up and a majority are not racist.
If your argument was true every kid in such classes would be racist. It's the fault of parents
@@beepboop9464appropriate lessons. You're right there. Unfortunately, who's going to teach that correctly? I had plenty of college professors teach woke ideology that was pretty much the same as the s*** I've heard from the right growing up
History that isn’t taught repeats itself
Democrat Utopia….
I thought we were supposed to listen to and believe children? If they're capable of changing their gender, they're certainly capable of deciding who they want to play with or sit with?
One has to do with someone’s personal choices and another poor choices affecting the people around them. There’s know way you can justify discrimination with a gender change.
@@matthewgreer7350 Believe children
@@matthewgreer7350 PREACH
Stay Smart; Stay Apart
Game, uh sure. Wonder how many of those kids playing this game get picked up in cars with MAGA bumper stickers vs COEXIST bumper stickers.
Quit spewing hate. Love your MAGA neighbor.
Probable NONE because it was the DEMOCRATS who fought for slavery, founded the KKK, wrote racist Jim Crow laws and wanted segregation.
Pathetic in one of the wealthiest places in America where are their parents?!
Lol You're kidding, right? This is extremely common in the wealthiest areas in any country.
The wealthiest and poorest areas share these habits