Jane Elliot Discrimination Case Study

A Class Divided by Jane Elliot This documentary film covers an experiment conducted by Jane Elliot in her third grade class in 1970. The film is actually a follow-up conducted in 1985 with the students, who are now adults responding to their actions in 1970. This film is directed by William Peters and offers Jane Elliot and her students an opportunity to watch the original experiment and air their views on the same. The overall goal of this film is to explicate how a simple experiment can help children as well as adults understand racism. This film is highly successful in achieving its purpose as is heard from the sentiments expressed by Jane Elliot’s students while discussing the impact the film has had on their lives.

Every day U.S. Marshals had to escort Ruby to school, to ensure that no one would hurt her. Ruby went to a all white school because Judge J. Skelly Wright ordered schools to integrate. Black children had to take a test and the top five scores were asked to integrate. In the 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges changed America by walking up the steps of a white only school to gain an education.

Cassie who is just a nine year old girl for the first time encountering a conflict regarding racism and facing such a humiliation by the whites. Another incident that can be observed from this text is during Mary’s conflict with the Wallaces at the school. Mary who is a school teacher got fired from the school because she was teaching according to the syllable set up by the County. Besides, coincidently she teaching history and even more worse the topic is on slavery so although, how ill the white treats the blacks it should not be against on their belief. The County and

Rumors went on and Lauren Slater the author of Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychology Experiments of the Twentieth Century, said that because of Skinner’s baby crib his daughter Deborah killed herself. Which was a false rumor but lots of rumors said she went crazy even when she was very young. Deborah even wrote that she was not a lab rat for her dad and she didn’t sue him ever. http://www.skeptically.org/skinner/id6.html He went back to Harvard as a professor in 1948. He continued teaching until he retired in 1974 but even after he retired he was still inventing and researching.

He goes on about how he is different when it comes to discipline compared to the iron fist of Sister Aloysius. He seems almost too focused on coming up with excuses for why he is abnormally close with Donald. His actions make him seem very skeptical about his intentions and actions in regards to Donald Muller. Father Flynn then goes and talks to Sister James separately to talk with her about the accusations. By talking to Sister James alone, Father Flynn not only broke the rules but also seems suspicious.

The wish was not literally granted but had some restrictions. Pecola didn’t literally receive blue eyes but she thought she did, and so it was a mind game. He lead “Pecola to lies, self-delusion and madness”, not a great quality of a pastor (Edmund 2). These blue eyes that she saw, were supposed to fix everything and change “the evil to good”. On the contrary and to her disappointment, these blue eyes did nothing that she dreamed of but made the people around her continue to think worse of her.

Due to this females are treated differently from males whether it’s a colored female or white females, women are treated as lesser beings to men. The extent to which they are treated differently ranges from simple bias to outright being sexist. For example in SchoolGirls by Peggy Orenstein girls are intimidated by boys and teachers refuse to acknowledge

Krebs the main character has a hard time adapting to society and a lot about him has changed. The military has learned him to not love anyone and he feels that doing anything that potentially has consequences is not worth the risk and that includes social interactions with girls which is demonstrated through the following quote. “When he was in town their appeal to him was not very strong. He did not like them when he saw them in the Greek 's ice cream parlour. He did not want them themselves really.” (P.3, line 34-36).

First of all, lack of empirical evidence is one of the major flaw in his psychosexual theory. The proposals of the stages were mainly based on his personal experiences, and even though his theory was focusing on childhood development, he did not really experiment on children. Secondly, cultural difference is a big consideration that he did not notice. There is no evidence to show that his theory applies to every ethnic group. Lastly, Freud’s psychosexual theory was strongly criticized by opposite gender- female.

Parents of student also do not like them. Parents often doubt their professionalism.” White eyes may seem float on air because their skin color is black. A person who works in the hagwon answered like this. People were very shocked by an article about John. Experts said it is a very serious problem but still many hagwons prefer white teacher to non-white

Miss Gates, Scouts third grade teacher, begins to talk about Hitler and the persecution of the Jews. Miss Gates lectures on how persecution stems from prejudices and how in America we don’t believe in persecuting anyone. She continues to discuss how she doesn’t understand why Hitler doesn’t like the Jews, defending the Jews because they have faith and they contribute to society. Later Scout comes home confused. Miss Gates was at the trial and she was excited to hear Tom Robinson was guilty.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People willing to help the Brown family and filed their case happened in February 28, 1951. However the case started off slow processed, the case getting bigger and friends and family got the news about the case and wanted to help and support The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Brown family as well. The U.S District Court for the District of Kansas heard about Brown’s case around June 25-26, 1951. The Federal District Court decided that segregation for educations were harmful to the black children. However all black and white schools have the same buildings, teachers, and the transportation, the segregation were

Jane Elliot was a third grade teacher that tried an experiment with her class to educate her students on the effects of discrimination. Elliot separated her class based on their eye color in order to explain how people are treated differently in the world. She tried to find a way to explain racism in the world in a way that third graders would understand. I was actually surprised when I heard there had been an altercation on the playground the day of the experiment. A blue eyed student teased a brown eyed student which resulted in the brown eyed student engaging in a physical altercation with the blue eyed student.

This is what was happening in Arizona. The Governor removed the class’s humanity because they were teaching controversial information in the class. They were trying to save their class by peaceful protests, but the oppressors or government was making their protests seem comparable a revolt against the US Government. This class was growing graduation rates of Mexican-Americans in Tuscan High School, everyone that took the classes graduated and then 85 percent of those who graduated attend college making the class a success. The only way for the oppressed to overcome the oppressors is to not become a subject or object but to join together to end the oppression.

There are similarities between the characters with discrimination because they both face racial and gender inequalities also. The differences are in the way they react. Skeeter acts in an angry manner and Scout reacts more confused and doesn’t really understand it. Skeeter acts differently than Scout because she is much older and can comprehend what is going on around her unlike Scout who 's a little girl. The situations are different because, if Skeeter was in Scout’s shoes and had to see Tom lose even though he clearly should have won, she would have been really mad because she is not a fan of the whole racist thing that’s going on.