Ivan and the old new kid are both at the sink, washing their hands before they eat snack. Ivan is half Caucasian and half African-American. Evan's skin is, indeed, brown. The old new kid keeps telling Ivan to keep washing his hands, they are still brown and dirty. The old new kid truly knows no better then to make a comment of this sort, he is six years old and mildly retarded.
Finally, after a good two minutes of the old new kid criticizing Evan's hand washing techniques, the old new kid screams out
"TEACHER, EVAN'S HANDS WON'T TURN NOT BROWN."
It was at that point that I read the class "Elmer the Elephant", a book about skin color differences. We discussed it afterward, I really think the majority of them caught the message.
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