What happened to having fun field trips to a candy manufacturer or the zoo or sports stadium? But then again that was elementary school but having entitlement minded children whose mommy/daddy give them everything learn some hard labor. Now grant it picking cotton might not have been the best of choice- PB/TK
High School Under Fire After Students Go On ‘Painfully Destructive’ Cotton-Picking Trip | 9:34 am, January 31, 2017
An Ohio high school is under fire after all the students in an African-American history class participated in a classroom assignment last week where they picked cotton and listened to black spiritual music from the pre-Civil War era.
The exercise, which the high school has used for years, was intended to be “an immersive and kinesthetic experience,” crafted to help students “enhance their understanding, albeit only by a slight glimpse, of the plight slaves had to endure during this dark time in America’s history,” the principal of the private Catholic high school said in a statement.
But this year, a rumor spread on social media that only black students were asked to participate. Students, staff and administrators eventually confirmed that the rumor was false, and that all students had completed the lesson, regardless of race.
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