Sun Prairie Families Sue School Over 'How To Punish A Slave' Lesson [View all]
Two families are suing the Sun Prairie School District and Patrick Marsh Middle School over an assignment earlier this year that asked sixth graders how they would punish a slave.
Students received a worksheet in February that gave a scenario out of ancient Mesopotamia that imagined an enslaved person had "disrespected his master by telling him, 'You are not my master!'" The assignment asked students: "How will you punish this slave?"
The school district apologized in an email to parents, and the teachers who assigned that worksheet — which came from a third-party website that was not a part of the district's curriculum — were allowed to resign and were placed on paid leave for the rest of this school year.
"When a group of teachers band together and institute an assignment asking sixth graders to take the place of a slave owner and asking them how should we punish this slave, that doesn't go away with just, 'We're sorry, and we're going to investigate,'" said attorney B'Ivory Lamarr, who is representing the families. "It doesn't work that way."
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