Pennsylvania’s Conemaugh Township Elementary School Awarded Donkey Of The Day

Pennsylvania’s Conemaugh Township Elementary School has been awarded Donkey Of The Day.

Not too long ago, a school in Pennsylvania called Conemaugh Township Elementary School thought it was a good idea to pass along an “alarming assignment” to fifth graders ordering them to “pretend to be a white master looking to buy a slave.”

Shannon and Kenneth Poole, parents of one of the fifth graders, was not too pleased when their daughter brought home said assignment.

Kenneth had this to say “On Thursday morning, we got an assignment in our daughter’s schoolwork folder, and it was basically a colored in worksheet that was titled ‘auctions, winnings to the highest bidder.’ And it was an assignment wherein the fifth graders were supposed to portray slave masters and identify what qualifications they wanted in their slave.”

The Pooles also added “I don’t think that we should be teaching our fifth graders or putting them in the frame of mind of what it’s like to own another human being or what qualifications hypothetically you would want in them. And I question the educational value of the assignment because if we’re asking our students to pretend to be slave masters or anything like that, why are we giving them points off if they said they’d treat a slave with empathy? That seems to suggest that there’s a certain type of response that’s correct or incorrect.”

The Pooles took to Reddit to say “The consensus is just overwhelmingly that this was inappropriate. And I think the point in doing so wasn’t to condemn the institution or reprimand any teachers or anything like that, it was just to bring awareness to the fact. And when we tried to bring that through the proper channels, it sort of fell flat. And again, it’s our hope that this will bring awareness to the issue and correct these so that there aren’t other little children going through this.”

The superintendent of Conemaugh Township school district had this to say in a statement “The assignment has been eliminated from the class and the district deeply apologizes to all who were offended by the assignment. The matter is, otherwise, being handled internally and measures are being taken to ensure that an unfortunate event like this does not happen again.”

Kenneth concluded with “It’s important to advocate for your children. I mean, at 10, they might not identify a problem but then they’re growing up and they’re going to see this thing and wonder and think ‘oh my God.’ And why didn’t your parents speak up for you. As parents we have an obligation to represent our children and to help them and make sure they are okay.”

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