+591 Ok English teacher, I get that you're being open-minded and not racist, but having a boy read the part of Juliet or the one black kid in class read the slave auctioneer is uncomfortable for the whole room, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Or you could try having a sense of humour, seeing as your teacher is probably just trying to make it a little more fun for the class.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

ono

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Clearly everyone but me had a shitty English teacher?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yah, but the one kid is being insulted for a feature that he cannot control and the rest of the class is laughing/sympathetic. Its not fun to be solo'd out on something about you and your heritage.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was thinking more that the guy reading the girl part would be funny. I doubt any teacher would actually single a guy out like that based on skin colour (I'm not familiar with the scene, but what if the only not black person was the slave auctioneer? I dunno). I feel like that would just be a mistake. My teacher just wrote a bunch of kids names on the board, then went next to it with the play character list. No plans for who to read what, and it was often quite funny. I guess that's what I was thinking...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think they're talking about two seperate books when they say "Juliet. . . Slave auctioneer" because I don't recall there being slaves in Romeo and Juliet.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, me neither haha

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There's no slave auctioneer in Romeo and Juliet...?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Two separate books

by Anonymous 13 years ago

We were talking about racism one religion class last year and my teacher says to this girl, "How does it feel being the only black person here?" The silence that followed was so awkward..

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In my english class once we were reading a story that involved a hot comb and some product that is typically used on black girls hair. It was a small class, so there was only one black person. My teacher asked if they knew anything about said product. It was a bald guy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My social studies teacher made the only two black kids in a giant class stand up. Then she criticized all of us because white people enslaved them...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Usually our teacher's have us volunteer and boys volunteer for Juliet sometimes. But I have yet to see a black person be a slave auctioneer.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The same thing happened in my class. All the girls wanted to read guys' parts, and all the guys wanted to read girls' parts.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I wish people here did that. Stupid small conservative town.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Our teacher just has everyone randomly draw, and almost always, for the twisted enjoyment of fate, the guys always get girl parts and the girls always get guy parts. Except for twice when the couple in love was two guys.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

One time our teacher read the Bible to us.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

lul aren't they not supposed to talk about religion?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yep. I think it's illegal.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I see nothing wrong with either thing stated as examples.

by Anonymous 13 years ago