D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu – divide and conquer lesson!<\/p>\n
Copied from a friends share – author unknown.<\/p>\n
One of my friends told me about a powerful lesson in her daughter’s high school class this winter. They’re learning about the Salem Witch Trials, and their teacher told them they were going to play a game.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to come around and whisper to each of you whether you’re a witch or a regular person. Your goal is to build the largest group possible that does NOT have a witch in it. At the end, any group found to include a witch gets a failing grade.”<\/p>\n
The teens dove into grilling each other. One fairly large group formed, but most of the students broke into small, exclusive groups, turning away anyone they thought gave off even a hint of guilt.<\/p>\n
“Okay,” the teacher said. “You’ve got your groups. Time to find out which ones fail. All witches, please raise your hands.”<\/p>\n
No one raised a hand.<\/p>\n
The kids were confused and told him he’d messed up the game.
\n“Did I? Was anyone in Salem an actual witch? Or did everyone just believe what they’d been told?”<\/p>\n
And that is how you teach kids how easy it is to divide a community.<\/p>\n
Keep being welcoming, beautiful people. Shunning, scapegoating and dividing destroy far more than they protect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu – divide and conquer lesson! Copied from a friends share – author unknown. One of my friends told me about a powerful lesson in her daughter’s high school class this winter. They’re learning about the Salem Witch Trials, and their teacher told them they were going to play a game. “I’m going to … <\/p>\n