Teaching Kindergarteners About Race: http://startempathy.org/blog/2013/01/secret-teaching-kindergartners-about-race.
Like many elementary school teachers, Madeleine Rogin found Martin Luther King Day both exciting and intimidating. A progressive educator, Rogin was eager to teach her students about the history of civil rights and empower them to make change. At the same time, race is a challenging issue to cover in a kindergarten classroom. Rogin found that it was difficult for her five and six-year-old students to understand who Martin Luther King was and what he stood for. Instead of finishing the unit with the interest and confidence to make change through peaceful means, students left with a scary image of a person who tried to do good things - but died. Furthermore, Rogin found that the class discussions during the unit made her students of color uncomfortable and unable to speak.
