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Speaker 3: Well donkey today for Thursday, March twenty. First goes to
Speaker 3: an elementary school named Connamhara Township. Cornamara Township is in
Speaker 3: Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and they recently had to apologize for
Speaker 3: an assignment bought home by a fifth grade student last week.
Speaker 3: Would you like to hear what that assignment was? Let's
Speaker 3: go to ABC seven News for the report.
Speaker 2: Please.
Speaker 4: Township parents Kenneth and Sharon Poole tell us their daughter
Speaker 4: brought home an assignment last week instructing students to pretend
Speaker 4: to be a white master looking to buy a slave.
Speaker 1: So we got an assignment and our daughter's school workfolder
Speaker 1: slaves like a colored worksheet that indicated that it was
Speaker 1: titled Auctions Winnings to the highest bidder, and it was
Speaker 1: an assignment wherein the fifth graders were supposed to portray
Speaker 1: slave masters and identify, you know what qualifications they wanted
Speaker 1: in their slaves.
Speaker 5: The Pools say the assignment asked the students to draw
Speaker 5: and describe the living quarters as well as various scenarios
Speaker 5: that would occur on a plantation. They say their daughter
Speaker 5: lost points when she wrote she would treat the slaves nicely.
Speaker 5: In a statement to six News, the superintendent of Conowell
Speaker 5: Township Elementary School says the assignment was intended to help
Speaker 5: students to comprehend slavery, but a different approach should have
Speaker 5: been taken.
Speaker 4: The couple says they're relieved to hear the assignment has
Speaker 4: been pulled from the class, and they hope that other
Speaker 4: schools can learn from this reporting. Somerset County Bailey WOJIC
Speaker 4: six News.
Speaker 3: Let the record show that the Pools were white, and
Speaker 3: it warns my cold heart to see that they were
Speaker 3: discussed about this. I mean, you know, listen, the notion
Speaker 3: that all people are racist as asanine, but every now
Speaker 3: and then we have to be reminded that all white
Speaker 3: people aren't created equal equal, Okay, But that reminder goes
Speaker 3: out the window when you think to yourself, there was
Speaker 3: a fifth grade teacher out there who thought to themselves
Speaker 3: that it was okay to have an assignment where the
Speaker 3: fifth graders were supposed to portray slave masters and identify
Speaker 3: what qualifications they wanted in their slave.
Speaker 2: Also, how many kids completed.
Speaker 3: This assignment, how many parents sat at home with their kids,
Speaker 3: and when their kids said, Mommy, Daddy, what qualifications should
Speaker 3: I want in the slave?
Speaker 2: The parents helped them with it.
Speaker 3: Jesus, can you imagine, let's not get it twisted. Though
Speaker 3: many of the enslave were skilled laborers, and those skills
Speaker 3: were a vital part of the American economy. You have
Speaker 3: to think a lot of them arrived here with a
Speaker 3: wide range of traditional African crafts. So you had something
Speaker 3: that did weaving, wood carving, pottery making. You had somebody
Speaker 3: enslave that was skilled in rice cultivation.
Speaker 2: They had, you know, many a skill.
Speaker 3: But the fact that a little fifth grader potentially could
Speaker 3: be sitting around the table discussing with his parents the
Speaker 3: qualifications they are looking for in a slave in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four, Jesus, I wish you bothers even more that
Speaker 3: the zoo said they contacted the teacher and principal, but
Speaker 3: they said that the school officials were initially unwilling to
Speaker 3: even remove the assignment.
Speaker 2: Are apologize.
Speaker 3: In fact, in a statement to six News, the superintendent
Speaker 3: of Collomar Township School District says the assignment was intended
Speaker 3: that helps students to comprehend slavery.
Speaker 2: What a different approach should have been taken?
Speaker 3: Yeah, how about the approach the freedom, the approach to emancipation.
Speaker 3: They would never be an assignment in the school where
Speaker 3: someone said, hey, we wanted to help students comprehend the Holocaust,
Speaker 3: so we decided to do an assignment that tauch students how.
Speaker 2: To be Nazi's. Huh, wouldn't happen? Wouldn't be tolerated?
Speaker 3: Teach your superintendent, principal, janitors, all the princil shoppingers in.
Speaker 2: The classroom would be gone if that happened.
Speaker 3: Not to mention, we in an era where these kids
Speaker 3: might grow up and be cancelled for an assignment they
Speaker 3: participated in when they was ten.
Speaker 2: And these kids don't know no better, okay.
Speaker 3: In your adults clearly don't know any better, okay, So
Speaker 3: you're just simply teaching white supremacy. And why this is
Speaker 3: why the whole notion of waiting for racists to die
Speaker 3: isn't gonna work, because I read a quote once and
Speaker 3: that quote is real.
Speaker 2: They said, premacy, it's not a shark, it is the water.
Speaker 3: Please give Connamar Township in Somerset, Pennsylvania the biggest e hull. Now,
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Speaker 3: and just have one of the best cold parenting situations
Speaker 3: I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: But it took a while to get there.
Speaker 3: It took a while for them to get there. It
Speaker 3: took a while for them to get there. And so
Speaker 3: when we come back, they will be here. That's right
Speaker 3: to discuss how they co parents, how it started, how
Speaker 3: they got to a place where they can co parent
Speaker 3: in the best way, and.
Speaker 2: We'll ask a bunch of questions. That's right, We'll do
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