Project Conclusion

When Elliott's classroom experiment concluded, it started getting popular in Riceville first, then it got into the newspaper. She then made her debut on the “Johnny Carson'' show. Elliott started getting death threats from people who thought that innocent white children shouldn’t go through that, whereas some would snap back, saying that black children go through it every day.  “I ignored them, since it wasn’t my responsibility to teach them anything.  I stuck with what I knew was true, and trusted that, as my offspring often said, 'Time heals all wounds.'” - Jane Elliott ​​​​​​​

Some of the parents and people in the same area were mad at Elliott because of how she was treating her students. They felt that third-graders should not have to experience that sort of negativity. What made them especially mad was that Elliott was performing it on white children. 

After the project, all the kids rejoiced and hugged. Later, they wrote essays on why Martin Luther King Jr. died, what discrimination is, and how they felt during the project. One of them was: 

“Discrimination means judging someone by the color of their skin."

“On Friday I felt happy because the people with brown eyes got to do everything first and we got five extra minutes of reccess [ sic ]. I felt sad for the people with the blue eyes because they got to do everything last. On Monday I felt mad and I wanted to tie the people with blue eyes up and quit school because they got to do everything first and we had to do everything last. I felt dirty. And I did not feel as smart as I did on Friday. Discrimination is no fun. Martin Luther King didn’t like discrimination against negroes.” -Debbie Anderson, Jane Elliott's student, (brown-eyed).