School teacher assigned 5th graders "to pretend to be a white slave master'

A fifth grade teacher in Conemaugh Township, Pennsylvania gave students a worksheet with the instructions to 'pretend to be a white slave master.' The worksheet was titled 'Auction! Winnings to the highest bidder!'
'It was an assignment wherein the fifth graders were supposed to portray slave masters and identify what qualifications they wanted in their slave,' said one student's father, Kenneth Poole. — Read the rest
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