3. A Class Divided

I think that it was incredibly brave of the teacher to conduct this experiment with the children in her class. Listening to the students reflect on their experiences when they were both children and adults confirms that she was right to carry out this experiment. I also believe that the time period and the small town the students were from impacted the way the students viewed people that they felt were different from them. This experiment clearly evoked a feeling that these students remembered until they were adults. The fact that this experiment was so memorable and life changing speaks for itself. I would like to do this experiment if I was teaching young students a unit on racism or segregation, however I would be hesitant to do so due to the nature of this experiment. I believe that with parental consent this would be a meaningful experiment to do with young children; and may change the way students feel about different groups of people moving forward.