Parents outraged after 5th graders in South Carolina pick cotton, sing songs on field trip (school, money)

[Suburban_Guy]

More snowflakes, if one ever needed to know where our young narcissists these days are coming from. People these days will stop at nothing to create drama where none should exist.

The parents signed permission slips acknowledging that the students would be picking cotton on this excursion. In addition, the song they sung was similar to one that a former black sharecropper himself sung picking cotton, and he totally approves of this sort of 'hands on' curriculum. And this has nothing to do with slavery at all, a subject which is already taught in another class.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pare...social_fb_abcn

Parents in Rock Hill, S.C., say they are outraged after seeing a video of their fifth-grade students picking cotton while singing as part of a school district field trip that aired on a local news channel.

In the video, which first aired on a local FOX affiliate, students can be seen picking cotton while singing: "I like it when you pick like that. I like it when you fill your sack. "I like it when you don't talk back. Make money for me."

And from another website (interesting that Yahoo did NOT show this quote on their article, only Fox News so far has):

"The song that is sung by the students as they participate in picking cotton, as it was done in the Great Depression time period, was originally written by an African-American instructor who currently works with students at the Carroll School. He did not intend it to sound like, or in any way be a 'slave song' as it has been characterized. The lyrics came from his experience as an African-American farmer picking cotton and making money for his family in the Great Depression time period.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/students-...ip-report-says

[Jowel]

Basically, this boils down to someone who thought they were having a creative lesson plan to let their students experience history and in today's hyper-sensitized environment, it backfired.

What happens in this kind of situation is that the person organizing the activity is tone deaf and insensitive to the political climate they are in and someone (or many people) are more prone to get knee jerk upset about it (and cause it get overly sensationalized by recording it on their phone and sharing it with a lot of people) than they probably would have been years ago.

No more, no less.

[burdell]

I'd bet the kids enjoyed their day out of school and actually learned a few things.

Oooooh, the horror.

[redwood66]

Heaven forbid that woman's "baby" actually learn something outside her own little bubble. I think the Carroll School is providing a great service in a hands on environment for school kids to SEE and experience a bit of history. I love going to live action history locations and working museums.