Careless assignments and lessons often traumatize and dehumanize Black students. Experts say they are just one example of how teachers in the United States have long struggled and failed to teach the complex history of slavery. usatoday.com/story/news/edu…
On the first day of Black History Month 2021, a group of Wisconsin teachers gave sixth grade students an assignment asking them how they would “punish” a slave.
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As the month drew to a close, a Florida high school teacher was suspended with pay after allegedly telling students slaves were not whipped by white people and that the N-word, a racist slur, “just means ignorant."
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Last February, a student-teacher in Tennessee gave her fourth grade students an assignment called "Let's Make a Slave" on a speech about keeping Black slaves under control. usatoday.com/story/news/edu…
In 2019, a fifth-grade teacher was accused of holding a mock slave auction in which white students bid on Black students in New York. usatoday.com/story/news/loc…
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