Grade Classroom: Jane Elliott

grade classroom: King's assassination sent shockwaves across the United States, according to Georgia Asian. The very next day, in the small town of Riceville, Iowa, the topic was brought up in Jane Elliott's Grade 3 classroom. On May 23, Elliott will be talking about racism and prejudice at Vancouver's John Oliver Secondary a clip of Indecently 1 of 2 2 of 2On the night of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was standing on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when a single shot from James Earl Ray's rifle ended his life. Elliott was anxious to talk to her third graders about King's death, but when she heard them use racist remarks to discuss his work, she knew she had to intervene. Over the next few days, Elliott transformed her classroom into a social laboratory. I knew it was time to deal with this in a concrete way, not just talk about it, Elliott would later tell ABC reporters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.