Marietta teacher faces disciplinary action for slavery game
A Marietta teacher is facing disciplinary action for what one grandmother calls a demeaning educational game.
Delores Bunch-Keemer told Channel 2 Action News she knew something was wrong when her 10-year-old granddaughter came home from Cheatham Elementary on Tuesday afternoon.
She said her granddaughter is the only African-American girl in the classroom and was asked to play an interactive game that involved pretending to escape a plantation. The class was trying to find freedom on the Underground Railroad, where a roll of the dice determined whether a player would make it to the woods, Channel 2 reported.
The teacher may have been trying to make a dramatic point about the suffering imposed on slaves, but the 10-year-old took her history lesson to heart.
Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/marietta-teacher-faces-disciplinary-action-for-sla/nsMk3/
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