Really Virginia?! Did we tell Florida to "hold my beer" for the month of February?!
Really Virginia?! Did we tell Florida to "hold my beer" for the month of February?!
- comment seen on Facebook about this story.
For Black History Month, this Loudoun County elementary school played a runaway slave 'game' in gym class
https://www.loudountimes.com/news/for-black-history-month-this-loudoun-county-elementary-school-played/article_9cecd568-35ef-11e9-8540-6372d03d3025.html
Third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at Madison’s Trust Elementary School in Ashburn were instructed during their physical education period earlier this month to play a “game” that involved students working in groups, pretending to be runaway slaves and advancing through an obstacle course meant to represent the Underground Railroad.
In at least one instance, an African-American child in the class was designated as a slave for the activity, according to Loudoun NAACP Chapter President Michelle Thomas, who said she's heard several complaints from parents regarding the activity.
Thomas has been involved in those efforts as co-founder of the Loudoun Freedom Center and now the president of the local NAACP. In the past year, she worked to update the curriculum on African-American history at the fourth, fifth, seventh, 10th and 11th grade levels, taking out insensitive activities and preventing miseducation of African-American history.
Thomas said every year around this time the Loudoun NAACP receives complaints from parents about activities such as a sixth-grade role play exercise where students choose between being a slave, sharecropper or landowner.