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.
Wasn’t Andre the Giant one of his most famous descendents?
This type of personality will make an excellent concentration camp guard.
This is like the psych prisoner/guard experiment where they ended up having a “Lord Of The Flies” mentality and really freaking out a lot of people. Children would be much easier to manipulate. Nightmares ahead for a bit but with normality should be okay in a couple of months. If not, it just exacerbated a predisposition.
Since race was not mentioned, does anyone have any doubt this was black teachers doing this to white kids?
Slaves do not dream of freedom. They dream of being the master.
I don’t think Paula was punished for using the “n” word years ago. That was just the excuse. Paula was punished for exposing Moochelle’s hypocrisy to the world when she said Moochelle never stops eating.
The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in United States history. It was a 10-foot (3.0 m) tall purported "petrified man" uncovered on October 16, 1869, by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell in Cardiff, New York. Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P.T. Barnum are still on display.
"Most famous hoax" until Global Warming came along, that is. The Cardiff Giant made a lot of money for P.T. Barnum, but GW has made BILLIONS for many more people.
I have been told that I should have lived in the 1850s, so I guess that makes me quite modern by comparison. :-D
Sometimes the only word available is just plain.....stupid.
I only went on one field trip — to a cotton patch.
Sadly I agree completely!!!
“Liberals are NUTS!”
Simple. To the point. Right on the mark.
They are a life form that should never, ever be allowed to lead any much less our society with their torqued perspectives.
They are always wrong.
This is sick in so many ways....yet not one person stood up! Amazing.
Its called "prepping the battlespace", sensitizing the children to the evils of the white race and to the playing of many future race cards.
Slavery re-enactments, as if we dont have enough grievance obsession in that community. If you want a wound to heal, stop ripping off the scab.
And did you jump down, turn around, and pick a bail of cotton?
Why is there “a slavery re-enactment?”
We’re reminded about this abomination every day and every minute. We can’t ever forget.
Liberals want to be sure every human that’s breathing knows about slavery and hangs his head low over it. All hail, great god of White Guilt!
I had always heard about “pickin’ cotton in the blazing sun, all hot and miserably humid...slaves dropping from heat exhaustion etc....
Being raised in the Tennessee mountains, I had no actual knowledge of picking cotton as we didn’t grow it...
Moving to eastern North Carolina, I realized cotton is actually picked in October when it is cool....
What BS....
Never mind that the vast majority of slaves were treated relatively well. Bottom line, when you pay a year’s income for one slave, you don’t beat or starve him so he is unable to work. My grandmother would tell of her grandparents having slaves. She said they ate out of the same pot of beans as the slaves did. Nothing was that different between the two. However, after Impancipation, they were glad they didn’t have to care for the now freed slaves anymore. The responsibility of taking care of their every need was too much. Sort of reminds me of the EBT Obamaphone crowd of today.
...and then they made them learn cursive.
in rosy granite with chilsel marks too.....Cooperstown is a cool place- BUT - had the worst holiday there once - car broke down late sunday / with wife and 2 babies......atm was closed / only had enough cash for a salad and a flea bag room next to the BBall museum...begged the dealership to expedite repairs....and they did - once we camped out in the waiting room the next day
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