Principal of a DC elementary school apologizes after in-class assignment ended with a black fifth-grade student being asked to portray a slave and another being asked to pretend they were drinking from a segregated water fountain.
The teachers said the Civil War unit is taught to fifth-graders every year and they have always tried to be mindful that the lesson contains"a very tough part of our U.S. History."
The school's principal, Carrie Broquard, said in a separate letter that the assignment was a mistake and will not be given to future classes."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," she said.
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