An Ohio school district is in hot water after the mother of a black fifth-grader said her son was assigned to play a slave for a social studies lesson.
Aneka Burton told a Columbus, Ohio, television station that in her 10-year-old son Nikko’s social studies lesson, the class was divided into two groups: slaves and masters.
Nikko ended up in the slave group and said the students playing the master role would “look in your mouth and feel your legs and stuff and see if you’re strong,” according to WBNS-10TV.
Full story: Bad lesson? Ohio elementary school in trouble after black student made to play slave in class