Parents Protest Outside School Over Slave Math Lesson

The Atlanta Journal Constitution (1/11, Dodd) reports parents protested outside Beaver Ridge Elementary in Georgia "after a lesson on Frederick Douglass prompted third-grade teachers to use slave beatings to teach math concepts." The assignment also "made references to slaves picking oranges and filling baskets with cotton." Georgia NAACP president Ed DuBose said, "The teachers, the staff responsible for allowing this to go forward should be fired." District policy requiring the worksheet to be "reviewed before being handed out to students...was not followed." The district's "human resources officials are investigating the Beaver Ridge incident to decide whether punitive action is necessary." The AP (1/11) also covers this story.