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  • 'Slaves' reference in 8th-graders' homework prompts apology from Tennessee school district

    03/01/2019 6:49:16 AM PST · by bgill · 39 replies
    FOX ^ | Mar. 1, 2019 | Stephen Sorace
    A Tennessee school district apologized Thursday after a homework assignment asked students to pretend their “family owns slaves.” Dr. Mike Looney, director of Williamson County schools, called the assignment “insensitive” and “wholly inappropriate,” in an apology he issued on Twitter...The assignment, which dealt with issues of slavery, immigration and child labor, was given to 8th-grade social studies students at Sunset Middle School in Williamson County. Part of the homework asked students to imagine that their family owns slaves and then “create a list of expectations” for those slaves, FOX17 Nashville reported.