Rochester school officials are investigating allegations that a white teacher told his class of mostly Black students to pick seeds out of cotton and put on handcuffs during lessons on slavery in a seventh-grade social studies class.
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A white teacher in New York allegedly told his class of mostly Black students to pick seeds out of cotton and put on handcuffs during lessons on slavery in his seventh-grade social studies class.
A Rochester, New York, teacher has been placed on leave, according to a statement from the Rochester City School District Board of Education, after parents alleged he made his students