Reply #66: I agree that unorthodox teaching methods can be very effective.

[last1standing]

I just don't think this was a good method because, regardless of his ability or intention, it was bound to stir up a national uproar that would drown out any lesson that was supposed to be learned. I wish things were different but we have to acknowledge the fact that most of the country doesn't agree with us when it come to flag burning and work very hard to keep an amendment on it from ever passing in the senate. Stunts like this just don't help.

The only problem I have with Jane Elliot is in your own statement that here lesson was "one that I think significantly put students in danger of hurting each other". I hope things weren't as dangerous as it sounds. Basically, though it sounds like a fantastic lesson in racism. I wish more teachers were able to handle that kind of undertaking.