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2015-11-10 21:47:51
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>During revision of the "properties" chapter, middle school students are noting "Four Syrian refugees are trying to reach Greece on a raft with 1m/2m/20cm dimensions and ρ=800kg/m^3. How many refugees do you have to push off the raft to reach the destination, if each one weights 60 kg?
>Mother of one of the students, a 14 year old girl, couldn't believe her eyes when she saw what was in her daughter's notebook. She called her supervising teacher.
>"I thought school was a place when children are taught tolerance and understanding. (...) The teacher apart from having a conversation with the principal, didn't face any consequences. It's horrifying!"
>"I just wanted to get the kids interested, to make them want to calculate forces affecting the raft. If I made it about a wooden block, how many of them would be interested? Maybe two. (...) Once we've made an exercise about Little Red Riding Hood shooting the wolf. Someone could see animal cruelty in that, but what's the point?"
>Draginja Nadażdin, director of Polish Amnesty International: "Expecting kids to calculate how many refugees have to drown for the raft to reach the destination is cruel. It's a hidden way of giving the students the role of those, who accept deaths of the refugees (...). The school's reaction can't be limited to the consequences for the physics teacher, the students deserve an honest conversation about refugees, preferably with refugees themselves.
>http://bialystok.wyborcza.pl/bialystok/1,35241,19165860,topienie-uchodzcow-na-lekcji-fizyki-skandal-w-bialymstoku.html#MT
