Current Events:
Darius Swann, Lead Plaintiff in Supreme Court Busing Case Dies at 95
Years Before Brown v. Board of Education
Objective:
Warm-up:
- Does treating people equally mean treating them the same?
- What would it mean to treat people equally in the following situations?
- A man and a woman apply for a job as a shoe sales person. What would the employer have to do to treat these two applicants equally?
- Two patients come to a doctor with a headache. The doctor determines that one patient has a brain tumor and the other patient has a run-of-the mill headache. What would the doctor have to do to treat these two patients equally?
- Two students try to enter a school that has stairs leading to the entrance. One student is handicapped and the other is not. What would the school have to do to treat these two students equally?
- Two students live in the same school district. The students are the same age, but they are different races. What does the school district have to do to treat these two students equally?
Required Activity:
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Closure:
Additional Activities:
2.Define/Contextualize through protectionism