Kate Pollard, a lecturer in music education working for the University of Nevada-Reno has taken the time to study the origins of two timeless nursery rhymes and determined “the innocent-sounding children’s classics that she taught educators to use in the classroom are riddled with invisible racism” report RT.
In her blog post, Pollard declares she is on an “anti-racist journey” and believes “a more appropriate repertoire that promotes acceptance and social justice” is required. Pollard then goes on to apologise to her students “whom I taught these songs and even more, I can do better. I will continue to do better.”
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