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A North Carolina school district has issued an apology after students at one elementary school created pro-slavery tweets and hashtags for a Civil War-era assignment. Students at Waxhaw Elementary School were encouraged to adopt personas from the Civil War era, then write mock tweets from the perspectives of the characters. An image posted to the Facebook page of Waxhaw Elementary School showed images of some of the offensive, pro-slavery mock tweets that were displayed in a classroom wall as something students were “most proud of.” Students included hashtags like #SlaveryforLife and #SlaveryForever. The post has since been deleted. In a statement, the school district called the assignment “unacceptable.” ....
Loading the player. A North Carolina school district is apologizing for an assignment that encouraged fourth-grade students to create pro-slavery tweets and Twitter hashtags. In a post that has since been deleted from the Facebook page of Waxhaw Elementary School in Waxhaw, North Carolina, students were given roles from the Civil War, then asked to write social media posts as their characters. Part of a display at Waxhaw Eelementary School shows pro-slavery tweets posted in a hallway of the school. (Fox46). The students came up with hashtags like #SlaveryforLife and #SlaveryForever. One post read, “@dontStopSlavery.” Another read “you may not [agree] with slavery but I do and I’m honest about it,” according to Fox46. ....
Waxhaw Elementary School asked students to write tweets as various Civil War figures, then displayed them on a billboard and posted them on Facebook. ....