What exactly is the big deal?<\/p>\n
In Adult Roles and Financial Literacy class at Highland High School in Salt Lake City,\u00a0the teacher handed out an assignment. The boys received a blue paper, while the girls received a pink paper.<\/p>\n
Maybe the color of the paper offended people?<\/p>\n
The instructions began, “Your assignment is to go on a date! But, the catch is you can only spend $5.00, this does not include gas.” Perhaps the point of offensive was taken here, as a run-on sentence beginning with “But!” should make\u00a0every English student cringe!<\/p>\n
“Below is a list of suggestions from the girls.” From what group of girls? Where they polled from a previous class? As I read the suggestions, it would seem that they were taken from a survey of other students, though I’d like clarity on this\u00a0source.<\/p>\n
The instructions encourage that the assignment may completed as a group date, pooling money for the activity.<\/p>\n
I’ve taken up the blue subtitled “Boys Paper” (which I feel link should contain an apostrophe)\u00a0to analyze:<\/p>\n
The bottom of the page gives three blank lines where the student was\u00a0to summarize the “date activities,” and concluded with a signature line for the “Date’s Signature.”<\/p>\n
Parents are upset with this?<\/p>\n
The overwhelming complaint I see online is that the suggestions are “from the 1960s,” “sexist,” or “inappropriate.”<\/p>\n
What is the name of that class again? Adult <\/i>Roles. Then this, in context with a lesson about social norms, is a fantastic assignment. Go out into the world, and practice interaction with another human being in a social setting. Show interest in her; show courtesy towards her, and show attentiveness toward her needs.<\/p>\n
The word that comes to mind is “Chivalry.”<\/p>\n
It is an assignment that might last for a couple of hours. They are skills that will serve the individual well in all aspects of life.<\/p>\n
Or would they rather that their boys be encouraged to take a girl out, stare at his phone, swear, thoughtlessly speak about people or topics, and make the girl uncomfortable?<\/p>\n
The page could have been rewritten for grammatical and clarity issues. Other than that, I have no problem with the premise of the assignment. I would encourage this assignment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What exactly is the big deal? In Adult Roles and Financial Literacy class at Highland High School in Salt Lake City,\u00a0the teacher handed out an assignment. The boys received a blue paper, while the girls received a pink paper. Maybe the color of the paper offended people? The instructions began, “Your assignment is to go … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ryans-posts","tag-social-norms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}