Teacher Uses Creative Yet Simple Method to Teach Kids About Fairness

An elementary school teacher used a creative yet simple method to teach children about fairness.

Life is not fair, and anyone who has spent any amount of time in the world knows this. Anyone who says the world is fair is either lying, insane or likely a little of both. Unfair situations and circumstances happen to people every single day. People have to endure painful, horrible and unjust things that they did not bring upon themselves.

Despite life not being fair, children grow up with this idea that things must be fair. They have to be fair because why wouldn't they be?  However, fairness and life being fair are not part of most people's realities. A clip posted on social media shows how a teacher used class time to teach her elementary students about fairness.

As the teacher explained, the impromptu lesson came about because she heard a student say that so and so received something that they did not. Of course, this was an unfair ordeal; that was the student's assessment.

The teacher then has several students grab a yardstick at the front of her classroom. One by one, the children reach out for the yardstick. Some of them, being shorter than others, require a chair to reach the yardstick, while other kids do not.

The educator then explains the situation to the kids.

"Jack is way taller; he didn't need the chair," the woman says. "Not all of you are going to need the same things. Some things are going to be really easy for some of you. Some things are going to be really hard for some of you. So, you might look around and think, 'Hey, that's not fair.'"

The clip ends with the teaching perfectly summarizing the lesson on fairness.

"Fair doesn't mean everyone gets the same thing," she says. "Your experience isn't the experience."

Proverbs 31:9 "Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy."