Black student forced to participate in slavery reenactment

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2013/9/19/black-student-forcedtoparticipateinslaveryreenactment.html

by ramisms • 13 years ago

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eksith• 13 years ago

This is a "Blue Ribbon" school, apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Magnet_Trinity_Colleg...

And this is why test scores alone are pretty bloody poor measure of excellence if that's the only criteria.

sp332• 13 years ago

The original article: http://www.wfsb.com/story/23472914/students-called-n-word-ch... There's an older video by a guy who went on a similar, but apparently less traumatizing, field trip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PToqVW4n86U so I guess this isn't an isolated incident.

hanley• 13 years ago

I went to Nature's Classroom (the camp mentioned in the article) sometime around 2001. I remember the slavery re-enactment, but don't remember any use of the n-word or threats of whipping. We mostly just ran around in the woods one evening and hid from "slave owners" behind buildings. I imagine there was some education going on but I don't really remember.

I never considered at the time if re-enacting slavery was appropriate for a 5th grader, and hadn't really thought about the re-enactment until reading about it now.

Black student forced to participate in slavery reenactment

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