{"id":169668,"date":"2021-02-03T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/teachers-suspended-after-asking-students-how-to-punish-slaves\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:01:08","slug":"teachers-suspended-after-asking-students-how-to-punish-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/teachers-suspended-after-asking-students-how-to-punish-slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"#Teachers suspended after asking students how to punish slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Teachers suspended after asking students how to punish slaves<\/strong>”
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Several Wisconsin teachers have been suspended after having middle-schoolers determine punishments for slaves for an assignment given at the start of Black History Month. The school eventually apologized to backlash from parents over the controversial coursework, which it has deemed a \u201cgross error in judgment,\u201d Newsweek reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFirst day of Black History Month and this was issued to my 6th grader at Patrick Marsh Middle School!!!\u201d read a Facebook post by Dazarrea Ervins<\/a>, who alerted the Sun Prairie Area School District of the issue. <\/p>\n

The history lesson asked sixth-graders at Patrick Marsh Middle School how they\u2019d penalize a slave who had \u201cdisrespected his master\u201d by telling him, \u2018You are not my master.’\u201d It aimed to illustrate the politics of ancient Mesopotamia by having the students app<\/a>ly an ancient law called Hammurabi\u2019s Code to various situations, NBC 15 reported.<\/a> The schoolwork said such a disobedient servant would be executed. <\/p>\n

Parents were not pleased with the assignment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe what I was reading,\u201d said Ervins. The \u201cshocked\u201d mother explained that her son Zayvion brought her the assignment with a \u201cweird look on his face that I\u2019ve never seen before.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI can see how they\u2019re learning about this era, but the wording of the question and the statement \u2014 it was just wrong,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Ervins\u2019 son seconded his mom\u2019s sentiment, writing: \u201cIt made me think of how they would treat me if I was in-person, in class. What would they think of me, and would they treat me like I was an outsider and make me feel scared and unsafe?\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just parents and students who were angered by the assignment. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t believe it was real, to be honest with you,\u201d Michael Johnson, president and CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dane County, which includes Sun Prairie, told Channel 3000<\/a>. He added that \u201cgiven all the training I\u2019ve been told teachers have gone through, I think this was bad judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sun Prairie Area School District announced that they placed the teachers involved on administrative leave, in line with district policy, and will continue to investigate the incident. The Wisconsin State Journal has reported that the question matches a $4 lesson from Teachers Pay Teachers, an online bazaar for educational materials that were outside the school\u2019s curriculum. TPT has since removed the lesson from its website.<\/p>\n

Patrick Marsh Middle School\u00a0representatives have apologized for the assignment in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are writing today to apologize for a grave error in judgment that occurred during sixth-grade social<\/a> studies instruction at Patrick Marsh Middle School,\u201d they wrote. \u201cA small group of our teachers developed and used an activity that was neither racially conscious nor aligned to our district mission, vision, values, curriculum, or district equity statement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The school reps said that the lesson \u201cis not consistent with the School Board\u2019s vision for this school district, our commitment to equity and cultural responsiveness, or the development opportunities we have invested in our staff.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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