Utah elementary school cancels slavery reenactment after parent outrage

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A Utah primary school apologized after asking fifth grade students to participate in a Civil War simulation of the Underground Railroad for a history lesson.

The Alpine School District said that the classroom slavery simulation was canceled in a statement to Fox News Digital.

"US History, including the Civil War, is part of the 5th grade curriculum," the district said."Lessons using simulations can be effective when utilized with appropriate topics and conditions. Teaching slavery using a simulation activity is a concern. After additional review, the proposed activity was canceled. It was determined that there are better ways to teach this topic rather than using a simulation activity.

Slavery simulation activities have sparked outrage at other schools around the nation. The principal of a Washington, D.C., school apologized in 2020 after Black fifth graders were asked toOther controversial classroom assignments have crept up across the country. Inat a Utah school last month, sixth-grade students were asked to eat insects as part of an English assignment on climate change.

at an Oregon high school, meanwhile, were furious last month after students were told to write a short story about a"sexual fantasy."Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox

 

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And the public schools are wonder why they're seeing their needed tax money from parents leaving for private schools! PS: it's not Republicans that shoot-up Schools and Churches. Check the records...it's all been liberals!

So they want reparations but they don’t want them to teach what the reparations are supposedly for

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