So, it looks like some students here made the news by re-enacting the Jena 6. *sigh*
Update: A letter from ULM’s President was sent out today, and apparently, we’re going to have a forum on diversity tonight, followed by “educational opportunities focusing on cultural diversity and racial sensitivity, including special programs that will be included in the freshmen orientation process.”
Of course, I teach first-year orientation, so that will be a fun, late-term addition. Oddly, the first-year orientation course is the least diverse class I teach.
I have to wonder if we want all this negative publicity. Are we trying to send a message, “Hey, we’re ignorant racists; don’t come here!”
First, the Jena 6 debacle. Then, the Jena 6 re-enactment. Then yesterday, a first-grade teacher decides to demonstrate how to use a noose on a student to teach the class about “black history.”
Are we brain dead down here?
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:56 pm
…Yes?
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:39 am
In a small defense of my home state…my parents (both raised in Louisiana) raised me to believe the “n” word was a dirty word and saying it would get my mouth washed out with soap. Not everyone in Louisiana is a brain dead moron. Unhappily, quite a few most decidedly ARE.
Where did the first-grade teacher work, Rick?
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:19 am
An elementary school on the Grambling campus (of all places!).