Posted on 04/20/2018 9:41:25 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
The lives of American slaves had both "positives," and "negatives." List them.
That's what one San Antonio charter school homework assignment said. It was sent home with eighth-graders on Wednesday.
"My wife picks [our son] up from school and as soon as they pull out of the parking lot, he showed her the assignment and was pretty distraught by having to perform such a classroom assignment," concerned parent Robert Livar told KABB. "Naturally my wife was upset, sent me the photo that went viral."
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On Thursday, the San Antonio charter school, Great Hearts, Monte Vista campus, issued an apology for the assignment, which also said that the teacher who assigned the homework had been placed on leave "while we have time to collect all the facts."
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Occasional torture?
“Islam says it’s okay, so it must be s good thing.”
“You get an A+, Johnny”
You could exercise outdoors?
Are you suggesting there was not occasional torture or that it was not only occasional?
arth ping.
Mom, the so called “charter schools” around here seem to be even worse than public schools.
What is your take on Charter Schools?
The guy that threw the net over them didn’t toss them in a pot?
Fresh air? Good exercise?
I can’t think of anything else.
It’s a trap!
Room and board.
An assignment my kids could do without.
Good tanning hours.
Escape from Africa hell and living in a far better place?
I had this exact same thing happen to me when I was 9 years old in 1957, at a Catholic elementary school in Medford, MA. The nun was making a point that there was good and bad in everything and, as an exercise in front of the class, she asked me to defend slavery. I did the best I could, and was scoring some points about how white indentured servants had it bad too, and that life as a slave in the US was arguably better than “freedom” in the jungle had been.
One of my fellow students raised his hand and asked me, “But doesn’t the slave have a soul, just like us?” I searched my mind for a good answer, and at that moment Sister Joseph waded in like a referee in a fight and called the debate to a halt. I still remember that lesson, and I don’t think anybody was hurt by it.
An owner that ought to have more of an interest in the person’s future than employers have in their employees’futures. Northern factories weren’t always wonderful places.
(That doesn’t mean that the owners always acted rationally, but some did.)
Positive aspects of slavery—guaranteed full employment plus free room, board and health care. Sounds like welfare-state socialism.
“Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!”
~Muhammad Ali
Far better place for whom? The slaves? Freed blacks in the antebellum U.S.?
This could have been handled differently.
The kids could have a reasonable debate on the subject if they were asked to explain the reasons that the slave owners THOUGHT that slavery was a positive thing.
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