Tonya Jennings' 12-year-old attends Four Points Middle School in Austin, Tx.
Last week her daughter was given a homework assignment: Draw yourself as a slave, then color and write a visualization of what you see around you.
"There's nothing about slavery that I would want any child, regardless of color, to have to relive," says mom.
The goons at the school district defended the assignment.
To wit: The Texas Education Agency curriculum for seventh-grade history expects students to explain reasons for Texas’ involvement in the Civil War, including states' rights, slavery, sectionalism and tariffs.
You know, because 153 years later the kids in Texas need to pay for the sins of Texans back in the day.
Last week her daughter was given a homework assignment: Draw yourself as a slave, then color and write a visualization of what you see around you.
"There's nothing about slavery that I would want any child, regardless of color, to have to relive," says mom.
The goons at the school district defended the assignment.
To wit: The Texas Education Agency curriculum for seventh-grade history expects students to explain reasons for Texas’ involvement in the Civil War, including states' rights, slavery, sectionalism and tariffs.
You know, because 153 years later the kids in Texas need to pay for the sins of Texans back in the day.