Jane Elliott: A Class Divided

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"I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating, little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes." Quoted by Jane Elliott in the documentary A Class Divided. A Class Divided is a documentary about a social experiment with blue and brown eyed discrimination. Jane Elliott’s experiment of splitting children along with adults up, based on eye color, was first put into action when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968. She didn’t know how to explain and talk about it with her students who had made King the hero of the month for February, in their third grade class. This idea was something that Elliott had wanted to do for some time and decided that this was