A lesson in what it means to be tolerant of diversity (from one of my students who feels stigmatized for being registered Republican. I don't know how he voted.)
HEADLINE: Tolerance fails T-shirt test
(excerpt) Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment in political tolerance and diversity of opinion at her school in the liberal suburb of Oak Park.
She noticed that fellow students at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama for president. His campaign kept preaching "inclusion," and she decided to see how included she could be.
So just before the election, Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then bravely wore a unique T-shirt to school and recorded the comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore the simple yet quite subversive words drawn with a red marker:
"McCain Girl"
Read about her classmates and teachers reactions:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-13-nov13,0,2881384.column
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1 comment:
Cool article on diversity of thought. Reminds me of your earlier comment on my post about the equal value of local vs national conversation of community issues.
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