"Pick a group from the chapter (students of a certain race, socio-economic status, physical stature, sexual orientation, social group, gender, etc.) that might be the target of such abuse and develop a plan for confronting it in your classroom" (Theresa Overall, http://umfresources.wikispaces.com/EDU101Chapter6)
As we all know, there is a lot of verbal and physical harassment and assault that take place in school and outside of school. I was asked to do an assignment, as it shows above. I didn't do the assignment as it's segregation which is a style of bullying so I felt that this homework assignment was unjust as it's asking us to bully and bring a group of people out in class. Could this be a good way to bring out differences? It's possible, however you're already putting a touchy subject and bringing it right out in front of your class and maybe even providing more harm than what good could possible come out of it. Just because you're students are aware or have become informed from this class lesson about this group of people, doesn't mean that the same behavior wont happen.
I have personally been to two challenge days, while we all came "out of the dark" parse, the subjective bullying didn't end, yes for that brief period of two days while people get over the shock of it all then life continues as it normally did with the same end result of harassment and abuse.
I am the role model of the class being the teacher, correct? How is bringing out and segregating one group of students being the role model, showing all the problems of the group and how you shouldn't be attacking them, isn't that in the end feeding the flame?
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