Much like Sesame Street, except way less fun, everyday we have a word of the day. All this really means is that the kids copy the word and write sentences with it in this book first thing in the morning. Then we put the word on our word wall and we take a few minutes to give examples of sentences that use the word. Today our word was 'if,' and Rylyn shared the following sentence: "If you are not nice to me, I will still be nice to you." This is not Rylyn's actual M.O., but I was proud of her for saying that, so I gave her a lot of praise and said it was "the best sentence I had ever heard." Every other kid in the class wanted that same kind of praise, so all of the next sentences I heard went something like: "If you don't love me, I'll still love you," "I will be your friend even if you are a girl or a boy," and "If you'll be my friend, I'll be your friend." And then Emily said, "If you are black, I'll still love you."
What?!?
Guess how I handled it? I totally brushed it under the rug and moved on. Because what do you say to that? I can't be like, "That's called racism. We need to treat everyone the same!" because that's what she's saying herself!
Sorry, everyone, if I really failed there.
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