profkew:
the-movemnt:
- An elementary school in New Jersey is facing backlash from parents after a substitute teacher staged a slave auction in a fifth grade classroom, the Huffington Post reported.
- According to CBS New York, the mock auction took place at Jefferson Elementary School in Maplewood, New Jersey, while the class’s regular teacher was out.
- The principal sent a letter home to parents explaining that a substitute had conceptualized the exercise, which “was not part of the curriculum, not part of the teacher’s assignment, not condoned by the classroom teacher, and not authorized by the district.”
- The activity was intended to teach the children about the horrible reality of the slave trade, but understandably, the auction upset parents.
- “There was a sale of a black child by white children in the classroom,” Tracey Jarmon-Woods told CBS New York. “If you’re demoralized — sold on a block in 2017 — it may affect you the rest of your life.” Read more (3/22/17 10:50 AM)
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These are not the innocent mistakes people, including the media, like to make them out to be. Don’t let these teachers off the hook; you have to work really hard to remain this willfully ignorant about traumatizing black children in 2017.