Age Appropriate Teaching of Difficult Subjects to Kids

Two local charter school teachers lost their jobs recently over a presentation their seventh grade students planned to give during a Black History Month assembly. Administrators at Celerity Nascent Charter School in southwest Los Angeles forbade students from reciting a poem about the civil rights icon Emmet Till, who was beaten to death in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The charter school's founder and Executive Director Vielka McFarlane joins Larry Mantle to discuss the incident and to examine the issue of finding appropriate ways of teaching difficult historical lessons to school-age children.

Two local charter school teachers lost their jobs recently over a presentation their seventh grade students planned to give during a Black History Month assembly. Administrators at Celerity Nascent Charter School in southwest Los Angeles forbade students from reciting a poem about the civil rights icon Emmet Till, who was beaten to death in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The charter school's founder and Executive Director Vielka McFarlane joins Larry Mantle to discuss the incident and to examine the issue of finding appropriate ways of teaching difficult historical lessons to school-age children.