I have slowly come to realize that the middle schoolers in my building
have a strange idea about what they read and about class discussions.
They think if someone writes about racism, for example, that person is
a racist. This isn't true of all the students, but certainly more than
half of them seem to think this.
If they read about cruel treatment that happened in the past, they
think the author supports this treatment.
I think that some of the students are afraid to say anything negative
during discussion because then they think they will be labeled as
something bad.
Have any of you noticed this in your students? What do you think is
going on here? Any suggestions about how to lead them to the idea that
you can talk or write about something without thinking it's a good
thing?
Jan
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