While supervising a student teacher 10 years ago, she gave me a copy of a lesson plan I was to observe her teach and I saw nothing wrong with it on paper. She was planning to teach the little third-graders how to sing a Christmas song in German, and then have eight of them stand in a row/line in front of the class with their arms outstretched and representing the keys of a piano. Then, another child would stand in front of them and try to touch their outstretched arms as if he/she were playing the piano to match the melody of the German song they were all singing. Sounds great on paper, right?
This all happened in Marshalltown, Iowa, and here's what it really looked like:
Eight little blond, blue-eyed Aryan children standing shoulder-to-shoulder at attention singing lustily in German with one arm each stuck straight out in front of them and their fingers rigid and pointed. Can you picture it now?
The really funny part is that out of all the people in the room, I was the only one who noticed anything unusual about it....
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