N.J. school apologizes after students told to make slave auction posters
A New Jersey schools superintendent has apologized for a “culturally insensitive” fifth-grade class assignment that required students to create slave auction ads. The superintendent of the South Orange-Maplewood School District said the student-made posters advertising a mock slave auction were part of a lesson to “examine what life was really like” in colonial America, CNN reported.…
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