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Students reported her for a lesson on race. Then she taught it again. (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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South Carolina high school English teacher Mary Wood was reprimanded last school year for teaching a lesson on race. She began teaching it again this year.

Mary Wood walked between the desks in her AP English Language and Composition classroom, handing out copies of the book she was already punished once for teaching.

Twenty-six students, all but two of them White, looked down at Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me,” a memoir that dissects what it means to be Black in America — and which drew calls for Wood’s firing when she tried to teach it last year in her mostly White, conservative town. Wood crossed to a lectern and placed her hands on either side of a turquoise notebook, open to two pages of bullet points explaining why she wanted to teach Coates’s work.

“That book that you guys have, it deals with racism,” she said on a recent Tuesday. “It’s going to be something with which you’re unfamiliar. That you need to spend time to research to fully understand.”

Wood stared at her class. She tried to make eye contact with every teenager. Anyone, she reminded herself, might be secretly recording her — or planning to report her.

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Plus, both teachers believed the book, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is superbly written: a master class in the deployment of rhetorical devices. There was no better way to teach children how to formulate their own arguments, they thought.

“It teaches kids a different perspective, [it] teaches kids how to write well,” Wood said in an interview. And “it’s the right thing to do.”

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This book is so good, if you have not read it please do. The audiobook is narrated by the author.

-- Gen x northern European dude

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

If anyone needs to be taught what it's like to be black in America, it's white people in America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Mr Coates is an American treasure of literary prowess generations should lift up by buying and reading his shit and respecting his opinions on the Civil War, classic video games, and racism.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Last spring, two students in that year’s English class had complained to the school board, alleging that “Between the World and Me,” which contends racism is embedded in American society, made them ashamed to be White.

What a pair of awful little shits.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

They, frankly, should be ashamed. Although, ashamed in general.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I bet their parents were 10 times worse.

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