HAH!

Blog number 305 **** 18 June 2009

I'm reading a book called, "Why Smart People Do Dumb Things." One of the stories concerns a Pennsylvania first grade teacher whose class contained two Black children. To teach the class about race relations and to dramatize slavery, one child was "sold" while the other was chained to a post.

The teacher said, "It seemed like a good idea at the time. But the school board, the parents, and the whole town went crazy."