Students called ‘n’ word, chased through woods on school field trip as part of a slavery reenactment
On a class trip in Connecticut, a girl and her classmates were chased through the woods and called the “n” word as part of a slavery reenactment.
One couple said that their 12 year-old daughter came home from the field trip with horror stories, and now they’ve filed a complaint against the school district.
Sandra Baker said at a Hartford School Board meeting, “I ask that you imagine these phrases being yelled at our 12-year-old child and their friends. Bring those (n-word) to the house over there. (N-word) if you can read, there’s a problem. Dumb, dark-skinned (n-word). How dare you look at me?’”
She said, “They intentionally terrorized them and abused them on this field trip.”
WFSB reports, “Sandra Baker and her husband James Baker have been on a 10-month fight with the Hartford School District that they’ve now taken to the school board.
It started during the past school year when their daughter was a seventh-grader at the Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy. She and her classmates went on a four-day trip to the Nature’s Classroom in Charlton, MA.”
There was a slavery re-enactment on the third night, that Sandra Baker explains, none of the parents knew about.
James Baker explained his daughter’s experience with the school board, ”‘The instructor told me if I were to run, they would whip me until I bled on the floor and then either cut my Achilles so I couldn’t run again, or hang me.”
They pretended to be on a slave ship.
They pretended to pick cotton.
They pretended their instructors were their masters.
According to the Bakers, the program told the kids that they didn’t have to participate in the Underground Railroad skit, but were only told about the re-enactment 30 minutes before it began.
The Bakers said they pulled their daughter out of the Hartford School District, WFSB reports.
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Whose brilliant idea was this?
One couple said that their 12 year-old daughter came home from the field trip with horror stories, and now they’ve filed a complaint against the school district.
Sandra Baker said at a Hartford School Board meeting, “I ask that you imagine these phrases being yelled at our 12-year-old child and their friends. Bring those (n-word) to the house over there. (N-word) if you can read, there’s a problem. Dumb, dark-skinned (n-word). How dare you look at me?’”
She said, “They intentionally terrorized them and abused them on this field trip.”
WFSB reports, “Sandra Baker and her husband James Baker have been on a 10-month fight with the Hartford School District that they’ve now taken to the school board.
It started during the past school year when their daughter was a seventh-grader at the Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy. She and her classmates went on a four-day trip to the Nature’s Classroom in Charlton, MA.”
There was a slavery re-enactment on the third night, that Sandra Baker explains, none of the parents knew about.
James Baker explained his daughter’s experience with the school board, ”‘The instructor told me if I were to run, they would whip me until I bled on the floor and then either cut my Achilles so I couldn’t run again, or hang me.”
They pretended to be on a slave ship.
They pretended to pick cotton.
They pretended their instructors were their masters.
According to the Bakers, the program told the kids that they didn’t have to participate in the Underground Railroad skit, but were only told about the re-enactment 30 minutes before it began.
The Bakers said they pulled their daughter out of the Hartford School District, WFSB reports.
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Whose brilliant idea was this?