1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: The execution on the Donkey of the day is something 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: you could hold for you. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 2: The reason they gave me donkey other day and I 4 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 2: deserve that. 5 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: You need to know. 6 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,039 Speaker 2: You need to tell them, I am you have the boy. 7 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 2: Tell them it's time for Donkey of the day. 8 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 3: It's a read. 9 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 2: But you're so good at charlamage. You know what you 10 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 2: want charlamage? Yeah, solo man who he's a dusk the 11 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 2: other day? Soon then. 12 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 3: Well donkey today for Thursday, March twenty. First goes to 13 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 3: an elementary school named Connamhara Township. Cornamara Township is in 14 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 3: Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and they recently had to apologize for 15 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 3: an assignment bought home by a fifth grade student last week. 16 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 3: Would you like to hear what that assignment was? Let's 17 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 3: go to ABC seven News for the report. 18 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 2: Please. 19 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 4: Township parents Kenneth and Sharon Poole tell us their daughter 20 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 4: brought home an assignment last week instructing students to pretend 21 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 4: to be a white master looking to buy a slave. 22 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: So we got an assignment and our daughter's school workfolder 23 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: slaves like a colored worksheet that indicated that it was 24 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: titled Auctions Winnings to the highest bidder, and it was 25 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: an assignment wherein the fifth graders were supposed to portray 26 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:17,279 Speaker 1: slave masters and identify, you know what qualifications they wanted 27 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: in their slaves. 28 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 5: The Pools say the assignment asked the students to draw 29 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 5: and describe the living quarters as well as various scenarios 30 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 5: that would occur on a plantation. They say their daughter 31 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 5: lost points when she wrote she would treat the slaves nicely. 32 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 5: In a statement to six News, the superintendent of Conowell 33 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 5: Township Elementary School says the assignment was intended to help 34 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 5: students to comprehend slavery, but a different approach should have 35 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 5: been taken. 36 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 4: The couple says they're relieved to hear the assignment has 37 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 4: been pulled from the class, and they hope that other 38 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 4: schools can learn from this reporting. Somerset County Bailey WOJIC 39 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 4: six News. 40 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 3: Let the record show that the Pools were white, and 41 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 3: it warns my cold heart to see that they were 42 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 3: discussed about this. I mean, you know, listen, the notion 43 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 3: that all people are racist as asanine, but every now 44 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 3: and then we have to be reminded that all white 45 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 3: people aren't created equal equal, Okay, But that reminder goes 46 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 3: out the window when you think to yourself, there was 47 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 3: a fifth grade teacher out there who thought to themselves 48 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 3: that it was okay to have an assignment where the 49 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 3: fifth graders were supposed to portray slave masters and identify 50 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 3: what qualifications they wanted in their slave. 51 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 2: Also, how many kids completed. 52 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 3: This assignment, how many parents sat at home with their kids, 53 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 3: and when their kids said, Mommy, Daddy, what qualifications should 54 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 3: I want in the slave? 55 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 2: The parents helped them with it. 56 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 3: Jesus, can you imagine, let's not get it twisted. Though 57 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 3: many of the enslave were skilled laborers, and those skills 58 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 3: were a vital part of the American economy. You have 59 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 3: to think a lot of them arrived here with a 60 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 3: wide range of traditional African crafts. So you had something 61 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 3: that did weaving, wood carving, pottery making. You had somebody 62 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 3: enslave that was skilled in rice cultivation. 63 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 2: They had, you know, many a skill. 64 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 3: But the fact that a little fifth grader potentially could 65 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 3: be sitting around the table discussing with his parents the 66 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 3: qualifications they are looking for in a slave in twenty 67 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 3: twenty four, Jesus, I wish you bothers even more that 68 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 3: the zoo said they contacted the teacher and principal, but 69 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 3: they said that the school officials were initially unwilling to 70 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 3: even remove the assignment. 71 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 2: Are apologize. 72 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 3: In fact, in a statement to six News, the superintendent 73 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 3: of Collomar Township School District says the assignment was intended 74 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 3: that helps students to comprehend slavery. 75 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 2: What a different approach should have been taken? 76 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, how about the approach the freedom, the approach to emancipation. 77 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 3: They would never be an assignment in the school where 78 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 3: someone said, hey, we wanted to help students comprehend the Holocaust, 79 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 3: so we decided to do an assignment that tauch students how. 80 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 2: To be Nazi's. Huh, wouldn't happen? Wouldn't be tolerated? 81 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 3: Teach your superintendent, principal, janitors, all the princil shoppingers in. 82 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 2: The classroom would be gone if that happened. 83 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 3: Not to mention, we in an era where these kids 84 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 3: might grow up and be cancelled for an assignment they 85 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 3: participated in when they was ten. 86 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: And these kids don't know no better, okay. 87 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 3: In your adults clearly don't know any better, okay, So 88 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 3: you're just simply teaching white supremacy. And why this is 89 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 3: why the whole notion of waiting for racists to die 90 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 3: isn't gonna work, because I read a quote once and 91 00:03:58,320 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 3: that quote is real. 92 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 2: They said, premacy, it's not a shark, it is the water. 93 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 3: Please give Connamar Township in Somerset, Pennsylvania the biggest e hull. Now, 94 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 3: Today's National col Parenting Day. It is and uh, you know, 95 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 3: just just Hlaris's baby father room. That's right, her him 96 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 3: and just have one of the best cold parenting situations 97 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 3: I've ever seen. 98 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 2: But it took a while to get there. 99 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 3: It took a while for them to get there. It 100 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 3: took a while for them to get there. And so 101 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 3: when we come back, they will be here. That's right 102 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 3: to discuss how they co parents, how it started, how 103 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 3: they got to a place where they can co parent 104 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 3: in the best way, and. 105 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 2: We'll ask a bunch of questions. That's right, We'll do 106 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 2: that when we come back, So don't move. 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