School Holds Slave Auction in Class – IOTW Report

School Holds Slave Auction in Class

Newser – Parents at a New Jersey school are outraged after white students held a reenactment of a slave auction of a black child during class, the AP reports. A spokesperson for the South Orange Maplewood school district outside New York says the assignment was not authorized by the district. Spokesperson Suzanne Turner says a substitute teacher was in charge of the class at the time. She says the district is looking into training and improved supervisory protocols for substitute teachers.

The mock slave auction happened in the same district where students created posters for slave auctions as part of a curriculum about the colonial era. Superintendent John Ramos said at a board meeting Monday night that there was no intent to be demeaning in either assignment.

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13 Comments on School Holds Slave Auction in Class

  1. The teacher was black. Of this I am certain. And we will never hear of this incident again until the next black NJ “educator” has another brilliant idea for picking the scab of slavery. Whereupon it will be progsplained that “there was no intent to be demeaning in the assignment.”

  2. @David. J. Marcone March 23, 2017 at 6:03 am

    But it would have been ahistorical. This was in a school, after all. And white(ish) kids have historically been expected to pay for their enslavement.

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