Homework: Draw Self As A Slave

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.

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You know, because 153 years later the kids in Texas need to pay for the sins of Texans back in the day.

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