An Iowa City teacher has been placed on administrative leave after assigning students a writing task that reads,"Pretend you are a Black slave."
An assignment, given to 9th-grade students by an Iowa City teacher on September 14, instructs them to"pretend [they] are a Black slave."Dibny Gamez, the parent of a student at Liberty High School participating in the district's Online Learning Program, told"My daughter came running in the room in tears and said, 'Mommy, I don't want to do this, I can't do this assignment,'" Gamez said.
Once the controversial assignment was sent out to students, she told her daughter to email the teacher again, this time to notify her that she will not be completing the work.Her daughter, who is of Honduran and African descent, was just one of three Black students in the class. According to Gamez, it wasn't until the other two parents got involved that the teacher chose to delete the assignment.
Iowa City, of course, where the University of Iowa is...quack...this doesn’t represent the rest of Iowa. This is disgusting! The teacher got suspended!