School Slave Game - Parents of students at Camp Creek Elementary School in Lilburn, Ga., 'Slave Game' Georgia's Camp Creek Elementary, are outraged after a 3rd-grader told her mother about a "slave game" students had been instructed to play, station WSBTV reports.
"It was kind of like tag, but we were slaves and slave catchers," mother Ericka Lasley said her daughter told her, the station reports. Georgia School's 'Slavery' Math Problems Sparks Parent Protest ...,
Another parent, Charvia Rivers, says her children reported the same thing, but Gwinnett County Schools spokesman Jorge Quintana told the station that a district investigation found that the teacher did not organize the game. Students Claim Teacher Organized Slave And Slave Catcher Game,
"The district determined that the activity was student-initiated and that allegations regarding the teacher’s involvement were unfounded," Quintana said in a statement to the station. Nevertheless, the district is planning to hold diversity training for teachers in light of the incident.
This "insensitive" game comes after another Georgia elementary school sparked national outrage over math word problems which used examples of slavery. thomas jefferson sally hemings,
Source: huffingtonpost
