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Wisconsin Teachers Furloughed After Asking Students How To ‘Punish’ Slaves

“This slave has disrespected his master by telling him, ‘You are not my master!’ How will you punish this slave?”

Chrissy Clark
Wisconsin Teachers Furloughed After Asking Students How To ‘Punish’ Slaves
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A Wisconsin middle school placed a “small group” of teachers on leave after they purchased and distributed a lesson plan that asked 11-year-olds how they would punish slaves. 

On the first day of Black History Month, sixth-graders at Patrick Marsh Middle School were asked how they would punish a disobedient slave during an online assignment. According to a screenshot of the classwork obtained by Newsweek, students were asked to describe how they would punish a slave that said, “You are not my master.” 

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