Funny: Black classmates sold in mock slave auction

WASHINGTON: Trying to bring a Civil War history lesson to life, a teacher turned her classroom into a slave auction: Jessica Boyle ordered black and mixed-race students to one side of the room. Then, the white students took turns buying them.

Complaints from parents began shortly after the lesson, and the principal at Sewells Point Elementary School, Mary Wrushen, wrote to parents last week that Ms Boyle had gone too far.

''The lesson [for children aged nine and 10] could have been thought through more carefully, as to not offend her students or put them in an uncomfortable situation,'' Ms Wrushen wrote.

Lessons on the Civil War have long been among the most sensitive topics in Virginia classrooms, many located near the grounds of the Confederacy's bloodiest battles. And the role that slavery played in the conflict's origins has been particularly controversial.

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Funny: Black classmates sold in mock slave auction

Funny: Black classmates sold in mock slave auction

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