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 Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 4:35 pm Post subject: Teacher Thought Enslaving Students, Then Auctioning Them Off - Was a Good Idea |
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| Quote: | A New York teacher singled out African-American students and cast them as slaves in a mock "auction" as part of a social studies lesson in March.
An investigation by the New York Attorney General's office found that the reenactment had a "profoundly negative effect on all of the students present -- especially the African-American students."
The incident happened in two fifth-grade social studies classes at The Chapel School -- a private school in Westchester County.
A teacher asked all of the African-American students in each class to raise their hands and then instructed them to go stand in the hallway, where the teacher placed imaginary chains on their necks, wrists and ankles. Those students were then instructed to walk back into the classroom and line up against the wall.
The teacher then proceeded to conduct a simulated auction of the students in front of the rest of the class, in an attempt to depict the sale of enslaved Africans to white plantation owners that happened in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The teacher who conducted the lesson was fired. |
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