Posted on 09/19/2013 7:08:21 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Imagine sending your child on a class trip, then finding out she and her classmates were called the "n" word and chased through the woods. It was part of a slavery re-enactment that some parents said crossed the line.
One couple said their 12-year-old daughter came home from the field trip with horror stories, and now they've filed a complaint against the school district.
"I ask that you imagine these phrases being yelled at our 12-year-old child and their friends," parent Sandra Baker said at a Hartford School Board meeting. "'Bring those (n-word) to the house over there. (N-word) if you can read, there's a problem. Dumb, dark-skinned (n-word). How dare you look at me?'"
Baker said screaming that at children on a field trip is abuse.
"They intentionally terrorized them and abused them on this field trip," she said.
Sandra Baker and her husband James Baker have been on a 10-month fight with the Hartford School District that they've now taken to the school board.
It started during the past school year when their daughter was a seventh-grader at the Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy. She and her classmates went on a four-day trip to the Nature's Classroom in Charlton, MA.
On the third night, there was a slavery re-enactment that Sandra Baker said none of the parents knew about.
James Baker shared his daughter's experiences with the Hartford School Board.
"'The instructor told me if I were to run, they would whip me until I bled on the floor and then either cut my Achilles so I couldn't run again, or hang me,'" he told the school board.
They pretended to be on a slave ship.
They pretended to pick cotton.
They pretended their instructors were their masters.
The Bakers said the program told kids they didn't have to participate in the Underground Railroad skit, but were only told about the re-enactment 30 minutes before it began.
"The fact that they used the 'n' word. I mean, how dare you say that to my child and call it an educational experience. How dare you say that to any child." Sandra Baker said.
She said she can't believe the school has been taking part in the trip for years and never saw a problem with it. She's filed complaints with the state Department of Education, Human Rights Commission and offices of civil rights.
"It's a town of people of color," she said. "Really. I mean, Hartford. You could not see something was wrong with this?"
The Bakers said they pulled their daughter out of the Hartford School District.
Channel 3 Eyewitness News reached out to the Nature's Classroom and hasn't heard back.
Only a demented liberal would think that this was a good idea for a school field trip. I know you were only kidding in your post, so that is not directed at you. :-)
he=me...sorry
This is all typical liberal touchy-feely stuff that teaches nothing. My step-niece taught this way. She once had a classroom activity where they pretended the be fighting in trenches in WWI. I bet most of her students have no idea when WWI occurred, who was in it, and that there was a WWII 20 years later.
I wonder - when this School District takes kids on a field trip to a zoo, do they stage a “Planet of the Apes” reenactment?
Oh wait. Never mind.
Did she use real mustard gas?
We struck the big-time in upstate NY when we toured an actual, working dairy farm and saw where our milk, cheese, and ice-cream came from. What a treat that was!
We did take a trip to the Farmer’s Museum in Cooperstown where I saw the Cardiff Giant. Now that was cool! An eight foot tall stone man, perfectly fossilized from the era when Giants roamed the earth.
Liberals are NUTS!
“Na”’s or “Ner”’s? I hear it matters.
Didn’t the skewl teach that N-Word-A is acceptable as we learned during the Zimmerman trial, but N-Word-ER is what’s offensive.
Some people live in the 7th century and others live in the 1600’s
They (Liberal-Progressives)now own the Northeast and far left coast.
This is just a small example of what they do. Once they have all of this formally great nation, there will be even worse stories of racism, political correctness and afirmative action.
Oops!
Formally = FORMERLY
sheesh
So if Paula Deen had been an educator here, she would still have a cooking show and advertising contracts?
We used to go on school field trips to the Oscar Meyer hot dog factory or something. Or the dairy farm.
You're kidding, right?
If I had kids, I’d keep them the **** away from America’s psycho teachers.
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