How did we miss this story? George Floyd 2nd Grade Assignment – IOTW Report

How did we miss this story? George Floyd 2nd Grade Assignment

Did anyone see this weeks and weeks ago? I didn’t.

George Floyd’s 2nd Grade teacher kept an assignment he did, and it is was supposed to be supremely poignant.

I see it as supremely ironic.

It’s framed by the media this way –

George Floyd’s second-grade teacher shares the essay he wrote 39 years ago when he was 8 years old. It reveals how Floyd aspired to bring justice to the world when he grew up. – Trendings.net

Ummm, that’s one way to look at it, I suppose.

Here’s the essay-

“When I grow up, I want to be a Supreme Court judge.”

“When people say, ‘your honor, he did rob the bank,’ I will say, ‘Be seated.’ And if he doesn’t, I will tell the guard to take him out. Then I will beat my hammer on the desk. Then everybody will be quiet…”

Sounds to me like he thought people should respect the authority of the justice system, and be quiet and do what was asked when the judge banged the gavel.

We would never have seen this essay if Floyd took his own advice. (The drug abuse didn’t help, nor the counterfeiting.)

As Biden said, George Floyd has had a bigger impact on black people than Martin Luther King Jr. had.

Biden asked, “how do we see ourselves?”

Well, I see myself as someone that can look at Floyd’s essay and figure out that people like Joe Biden warped the black community’s mind.

36 Comments on How did we miss this story? George Floyd 2nd Grade Assignment

  1. I sense some bs here. How much material did this teacher keep over the years and why? I taught children for 20 years and would NEVER have kept any of their work around cluttering things up. I don’t believe this.

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  2. Yeah but see- it was the JUDICIAL system that messed him up in the long run. Not the bad choices in friends, companions, nor the lack of self discipline that led to him robbing a pregnant woman at gun point or ingesting enough fentanyl to kill an elephant.

    Nah. One minute he was a peaceful little boy who wanted to respect the law and the very next he’s a victim of the state! They MADE him do those bad things, don’t you see that???

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  3. Uh, no. No 2nd grader writes that well. Proper spelling, punctuation, etc. He even used quotation marks. Most black college students couldn’t write like this.

    And then this ‘teacher’ is supposed to have kept it for 4 decades?

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  4. I don’t believe it for a second.

    Those are cursive ‘q’s and every body knows that negroes don’t write cursive.

    Such bullshit is an affront to every negro murdered by cops.

    izlamo delenda est …

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  5. So we are to believe not only did she keep it, she knew she kept it, and she knew right where it was.

    I doubt my second grade teacher would have had any idea who I was when I was 47.

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  6. RadioMattM August 18, 2020 at 1:21 pm

    So we are to believe not only did she keep it, she knew she kept it, and she knew right where it was.

    I doubt my second grade teacher would have had any idea who I was when I was 47.
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    I think his teacher just made that up. The writing is good, no misspelled words, and in the second grade he was just learning how to read and write. First grade was for reading. I call BS! Someone should do a DNA on that piece of paper. No second grader even knows what a judge looks like – much less a Supreme Court Judge.

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  7. One other thing, from my experience teachers give your assignment back after it’s graded. What kind of pack rat would save every assignment from every student from every year where you taught? Let’s see some other ones from other people over the years from this amazing teacher. More wagging the dog me thinks.

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  8. I have only been teaching for 2 years, and I have no problem saying that I have kept, on average, 1 paper each semester, and that is because those students identified something I have not thought of. To keep something for 20+ years? I will not say I won’t, or that other teachers might have, but … leaning towards doubting this story.

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