Texas Parents FURIOUS Over School Experiment

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Schools have morphed from educational institutions to hotbeds of leftism. And the results are not at all to the benefit of the students.

Now, one school district in San Antonio took things way too far.

Without asking for parental input or even informing families of their plans, one school district divided students by the color of their hair. Keep in mind, “educators” did this! The children in one group were told they weren’t as smart as the other students. It was meant to be a lesson on racism. But it clearly backfired.

Parents were livid to learn their children were intentionally mistreated to prove a point. It’s like throwing kids off the boat and hoping they pick up swimming pretty quickly. It’s just not the smart way to teach a lesson.

News 4 San Antonio explains:

The parents we spoke to say they want their children to learn about racism and civil rights but feel Northside ISD went too far with the segregation experiment and by making children watch a documentary it admits was not age appropriate.

Mike and Brandi Lininger say their ten-year-old daughter was confused and hurt by a classroom experiment in January at Leon Springs Elementary. Students were separated according to hair color, with one group receiving preferential treatment.

“All of the dark-haired kids, the brown- and black-haired kids, were treated as the privileged ones and the blonde haired and the redhead kids were the ones treated not so nicely,” said Brandi Lininger.

The Lininger’s say teachers told students children in the fair-haired group were not as intelligent. That group was purposely given a game with pieces missing so they could not play. Later they were made to clean up after the other children.

“She was hurt, her friends, and she named to the principal and to district officials, names of her friends that were crying,” Brandi Lininger said.

Fifth graders were also shown a Spike Lee documentary called “4 Little Girls” about the 1963 bombing of an Alabama church. The film includes graphic autopsy photos of the girls’ bodies.

The teacher says she fast-forwarded past those parts, but the Lininger’s say the children in their daughter’s class did see the photos.

“The things that she said that she skipped over, my daughter was able to describe to us to a ‘T.’ So that night our daughter was unable to go to sleep in our own room, she was scared,” Mike Lininger said.

Personally, I’ve worked with children for

twenty-seven years. I have a degree in special education. I’ve studied behavior challenges and worked with children from many different ages / backgrounds / intelligences. And I am disturbed by this experiment.

Violence and Young Children

Experts agree that even when children are too young to process what they’re seeing on TV, they’re still impacted by violence.

In fact, WebMD has the following advice for children ages 6 to 12:

Typically, children in this age group “lack the depth of consequences,” Hagan tells WebMD.

That’s why it’s important for parents to make themselves available to discuss what’s behind the violent images their children witness. “Tell your children repeatedly that you’re there to talk about it with them,” Salamon urges.

To make such a conversation effective, parents need to know where to start. “Ask how much they know and understand about what’s going on. Don’t automatically assume anything,” Hagan says.

It’s likely initiating a conversation will lead to ongoing dialogue. “Be available to your children. As they process the information, they’ll be coming back to you,” Hagan says.

But let’s get real. This shouldn’t be something we have to look up on WebMD. This should be common sense. So not only were these children subjected to violent and disturbing images, but they were also being subjected to emotional abuse, as they were told how much dumber they were than their classmates.