I had a unique situation in class the other day. A first grader refused to sit at his desk. When I asked why, he replied, "I don't like black desks. I like white desks."
I explained that the desk isn't dirty, the wood is just darker than on the other desks. Still, he wouldn't budge. "I don't like black desks."
At one point another student asked me why I was laughing. I had a hard time explaining that it's hard to say "The desk looks different but that's okay" with a straight face. I just wasn't prepared to celebrate the diversity of my classroom's desks.
There are certain things you hope you never have to deal with in the classroom. Discrimination against furniture is one of them.
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