A school in Washington, D.C., recently issued an apology for assigning black students to play the role of slaves in a classroom exercise.
Principal Carrie Broquard wrote a statement saying, “At Lafayette, we believe in the importance of teaching painful history with sensitivity and social awareness. Unfortunately, we fell short of those values in a recent 5th-grade lesson." Broquard noted the lesson had students playing “inappropriate and harmful” roles like black people “drinking from a segregated water fountain and an enslaved person.” The principal continued, “We deeply regret that we did not foresee this as a potential challenge in role-playing so we could set appropriate parameters to protect students.”
The District of Columbia Public Schools issued a statement calling the lesson inappropriate and said the school was responding to the situation.
source: CNN
