There are several ways through which we could measure how far Korea is behind on race relations, but since I'm supposed to be working right now I will just give you this one. The students are reading a novel about a middle school boy who has a science accident and turns invisible. Adventure ensues. When asked to write about the novel, this is one yardstick by which we can guage civil rights progress in Korea. Lifted from sentence #1:
"Justin is a Negro then his friends are banter Justin."
ok. i was teaching about US holidays last week and one of them was MLK. students were supposed to guess the holiday. it even said "martin luther king" on the powerpoint page, but no. they guessed "black man day" and shouted "obama!" over and over.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately all the kids here, too thought that MLK, Jr. had something to do with Obama and the Presidential Inauguration had something to do with MLK, Jr.
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