Texas parents were angry after their 5th grader was shown photographs of autopsy results of four murdered Ku Klux Klan children and left crying.
Leon Springs Elementary, San Antonio’s 524-student elementary, taught segregation to its students in January.
Children were split into fair and dark haired groups throughout the class.
Then, they were given various tasks and duties.
Students with dark hair were considered privileged and were told that they were more intelligent than those who had blonde or red hair.
Each set of students was given a puzzle, with the exception that one piece wasn’t found by the lighter-haired student.
Also, the light-haired student had to tidy up after the others at the end.
Mike and Brandi Lininger said that their 10-year old daughter attended Leon Springs. However, they were angry at the segregation in the school. This left Brandi with a disturbed child.
Leon Springs Elementary School in San Antonio, Texas (pictured) hosted the class in January
Brandi and Mike Lininger shared with News4SA their 10-year-old daughter’s upset reaction to the lesson and how some classmates became emotional.
Brandi Lininger said that “She was hurt. Her friends were hurt.”
Spike Lee’s 1997 document, 4 Little Girls about 1963 attack on an Alabama church, was also shown to students.
The attack claimed the lives of four African American girls, all between 11 and 14, who were approximately the same age as their class.
This film contains graphic images of bodies taken by autopsy.
Although the class teacher claimed she had fast-forward the autopsy photos, the Lininger’s stated that the graphic images were actually seen by the class children.
Mike Lininger said, “The things she spoke that she left out, she was able describe to us to the t.”
“So, that night our little girl couldn’t go to bed in her own bedroom because she was afraid.
4 Little Girls was Spike Lee’s 1997 documentary. It was shown to students. This film is about the 1963 Alabama bombing that resulted in the deaths of four girls who were members of a church.
Liningers stated that their anger was mainly due to the fact they weren’t given prior notice.
Brandi Lininger stated, “They send us newsletters and notes about all other things.”
“Your child will see The Polar Express on Friday, before Winter Break. We don’t know that they are going to be doing a social experiment about segregation.
News4SA said the class was inspired by an exercise Jane Elliott devised back in 1970. She is now a internationally renowned diversity trainer.
After the incident, the school district said that it did not consider the experiment to be ‘age-appropriate’.
Elliott’s first exercise labeled students inferior and superior solely based on their eye color. It also exposed them to the feeling of being in a minority.
Other teachers copied this experiment over the years, using sometimes hair color to distinguish the two.
Northside Independent School district told the channel they reviewed complaints regarding the Liningers lesson and had decided to not repeat it.
The school stated that the activity and the video were part of a bigger lesson about the inequity in segregation for fifth graders.
“While campus received positive feedback from many parents, the district administration and campus administration acknowledge the concerns of the parent and agree that video and activity are inappropriate for children and will be removed again.”
These lessons are being offered amid national discussion about similar “equity” lessons being imposed on children by woke schools boards. Critics claim that they have their roots in critical race theory.
While supporters claim they give insight into black Americans’ everyday prejudices, critics have called them inappropriate and divisive.