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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Zeus posted...

Not sure how any of that really correlates, but a fifth-grader won't have the context to really interpret the other person's point of view beyond "RACISM!" and, if anything, the exercise boils things down to oversimplification.

I don't know about your education, but when I was told to write a report on a subject, I'd either have been given sufficient information to write a well-reasoned arguement, or be expected to research the subject so I am able to do so.

Students are being encouraged to look at the KKK from the perspective you rambled on about for wall o' text pages. This being a group potentially more demonised than Nazis in 'murica it's pretty significant to develop the skills to reason against a sea of over-emotional wailing before batshit crazy SJWs sink their claws in them and drain away their rational thinking in favour of blind shit-flinging.

You're not going to have sufficient information or context in fifth grade. Anything that you're provided won't be nearly enough and would only serve to simplify the lessons learned. And, at those grade levels, the teachers don't really have the flexibility they would have later on and would therefore only expect variations of "because they're evil" as an answer. Nor could you blame them for reaching that conclusion because they're fucking fifth-graders and, even at much later ages, it's difficult to understand outwardly reprehensible organizations to the extent that you can almost rationalize their POV.

The result that we saw when the question was asked is EXACTLY the result you should expect from the average fifth-grader. They don't have the tools to process this information nor a thorough enough historical understanding to lend a real context to it. Their history has thus far been fairly abridged, with major events -- ones which could take years to thoroughly cover -- are learned in passing over the course of a week or so.
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