School’s Slavery Re-Enactment Field Trip Included Racial Slurs, Threats Of Violence
An award-winning Connecticut public school is under fire for taking students on a slavery re-enactment field trip that reportedly included threats of physical violence, whipping, and usage of the N-word. Parents of one pre-teen student are furious that after battling local school officials, they cannot even get an apology.
“During a Nature’s Classroom field trip organized by Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy last year, a 12-year-old black girl was forced to pretend she was a slave as part of a historical reenactment,” Colorlines reports.
“During the simulation she was called the N-word, chased through the woods, and threatened with physical violence including whipping and cutting her Achilles. Nature’s Classroom has been criticized for this same reenactment in the past, but continues do it.”
Sandra and James Baker, ten months and zero satisfaction later, are going further. Even though their daughter no longer attends the Hartford Magnet school, the Bakers are demanding action from the Connecticut School Board and the Human Rights Commission.
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