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SummerSnow

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Fri Mar 8, 2019, 07:06 PM Mar 2019

This shit has to stop, when did people start thinking this is ok? [View all]

Mock student slave auction rocks private Westchester school


By Ben Chapman
| EDUCATION REPORTER |
Mar 08, 2019 | 1:55 PM




A white teacher at a Westchester County school held a mock slave auction with her black students as part of a fifth-grade history lesson for her class — plunging the private institution into chaos, a parent and sources with knowledge of the situation told the Daily News Friday.

Administrators at the Chapel School in Bronxville are investigating the shocking allegation that the teacher allowed her white students to bid on black students who pretended to be slaves during a fake auction Tuesday.

The matter is currently being investigated by school officials and is also being probed by state Attorney General Letitia James.

Vernex Harding, of Bronxville, said her son, who is black, was one of the students singled out by teacher Rebecca Antinozzi for the so-called history lesson......

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-metro-mock-slave-auction-riles-westchester-school-20190308-story.html

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WTF? The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2019 #1
Wow! Soxfan58 Mar 2019 #2
Nazi Christian school by chance ? magicarpet Mar 2019 #3
"when did people start thinking this is ok?" TwilightZone Mar 2019 #4
Basically when the racists voted blur256 Mar 2019 #5
very poor judgement vlyons Mar 2019 #6
Where do they find these people? procon Mar 2019 #7
This is just sick! smirkymonkey Mar 2019 #8
And for the next class? Turbineguy Mar 2019 #9
Not only this, teacher making an Ash Wed kid wash the ashes off, and way more: UTUSN Mar 2019 #10
I thought you were refering to the antics of the Trump administation. triron Mar 2019 #11
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