“We take note of the insensitive nature of the activity at the end of the Gr 7 presentation on the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” the school said in a statement issued by secondary faculty principal Sylvia Steyn.“The activity was intended to establish awareness of the slave trade and the manner in which the slaves were treated, as well as to teach the learners about using resources. However, we acknowledge that the activity should have been worded differently.
Warren Bradley Wildey asked how one would correctly word making the pain and suffering of black people into a fun activity? Sinéad Russell said, “Actively asking children to create an advertisement for a slave auction. To be done in 30 minutes. How does that teach using resources to children? How does role playing the slave trade teach children the horrors that it imposed. This ‘fun activity’ as it was titled was a gross injustice on the history of the slave trade. It taught nothing of the victims, but allied the children with the oppressor.
“You take note of insensitivity, but this is not insensitivity, this is woeful and blissful ignorance. And in light of the current world climate, this could have been a poignant teaching moment, but it was turned into a ‘fun activity’. I don’t accept this apology, because I do not see one.” Catherine Barry described it as a “non-apology” that denied and deflected responsibility or accountability.
They did that on purpose at this time we are fighting anti-racism then they do that no man we don't need an apology the teacher should be jailed
The schools name is Parklands College.
Cape Town school acknowledges “insensitive” slave trade assignment***
Stupidity should be a crime.
It's no accident. TimesLives makes it seem like the incident is still about an 'apology'. The media are just as bad as the racists.
“Parklands College in Cape Town has apologized for a racist assignment given to grade 7 pupils to create a fictional advertisement for a sale of black people as slaves in an auction.”
Why doesn’t the headline reflect the content, which is that the apology was described as a ‘non-apology’ and was not acceptable?
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Too late! How dare they!
In 2020!!!!
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Cape Town school apologises for 'insensitive' slave trade assignmentA private school in Cape Town has apologised for an “insensitive” assignment given to grade 7 pupils to create a fictional advertisement for a “slave trade auction”. Not thinking it through? Lol Yemadoda Is it not the duty of our educators to learn our children about the past and to understand SA history what happened through thinking? Is this really racism or artificially created racism at play ?
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