Slavery Lesson

Union County Public Schools in North Carolina is in the hot seat after a group of fourth-grade students was tasked with developing social media hashtags that people may have tweeted during the Civil War.

White teachers at Whitney High School Cerritos, California, have been re-enacting slavery as a lesson for 10 years.

A New Jersey elementary school recently apologized to a group of angry parents for an assignment that involved fifth-graders drawing posters of slave auctions.