5th Graders' history project includes creating posters advertising slave auctions.

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Admittedly i dont know how to feel about this. I kinda chuckled in disbelief at first, then thought this kinda messed up, but then thought at least they're learning about it.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/13/us/el...rs-trnd/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool

A New Jersey schools superintendent has apologized for a "culturally insensitive" assignment in which fifth-graders learning about Colonial America were asked to create posters advertising slave auctions.

The posters have been taken down from walls at South Mountain Elementary School and the assignment will be rethought next year, the superintendent said.
Some parents had complained about the auction posters, which contained such wording as "Men: aged from 20-26, strong" and "Anne, aged 12 years, a fine house girl."


Students also had created wanted posters, apparently for for runaway slaves, that depicted brown-skinned men and women with dollar rewards attached.
 

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Admittedly i dont know how to feel about this. I kinda chuckled in disbelief at first, then thought this kinda messed up, but then thought at least they're learning about it.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/13/us/el...rs-trnd/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool

A New Jersey schools superintendent has apologized for a "culturally insensitive" assignment in which fifth-graders learning about Colonial America were asked to create posters advertising slave auctions.

The posters have been taken down from walls at South Mountain Elementary School and the assignment will be rethought next year, the superintendent said.
Some parents had complained about the auction posters, which contained such wording as "Men: aged from 20-26, strong" and "Anne, aged 12 years, a fine house girl."


Students also had created wanted posters, apparently for for runaway slaves, that depicted brown-skinned men and women with dollar rewards attached.
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Jan 10, 1885? :patrice:

Why would this project come before a lesson on the emancipation proclamation?
 

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Smh. Slave auction advertising, referring to slaves as immigrants, etc. What's the end game for these people?
 
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