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A teacher asked students to pretend to be slaves writing to their family in Africa.
The school s principal apologized to parents.
A photo of a Mississippi middle-school teacher s writing assignment on slavery has drawn heavy criticism online, with many saying the exercise trivialized the racist institution.
Steven Hampton, the Lamar County School District superintendent, told WDAM that the assignment in question was at the end of the slideshow presentation on the atrocities and negatives of slavery given Wednesday to a class of eighth graders at Purvis Middle School.
Students were asked to pretend like you are a slave working on a Mississippi plantation and write a letter to your family back in Africa or in another American state describing your life, according to the image of the assignment that was posted online.
Assignment at Mississippi middle school asks students to âpretend like you are a slaveâ
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FULL INTERVIEW: Parent speaks out after assignment at Mississippi middle school
La Cree Jackson, a parent of a seventh-grader at the school, told FOX Television Stations that the assignment was really distasteful.
LOS ANGELES - A photo of a Mississippi middle school teacher’s writing assignment on slavery has gone viral and is drawing heavy criticism online, with many saying it trivializes and ignores the facts of slavery.
The assignment was given Wednesday to eighth-graders at Purvis Middle School, where students were asked to pretend like you are a slave working on a Mississippi plantation and write a letter to your family back in Africa or in another American state describing your life.