California News: School Stops Slavery Reenactment Project That Required Tying of Students
Despite its noble intention to educate the students about the slavery that brought the Africans to mainland America, Whitney High School has discontinued its slavery reenactment project.
The California-based Whitney High School recently sparked outrage after a mother of one of the students posted on Facebook an email informing her about a reenactment project that aimed at helping students understand the psychological impact of slavery on Africans.
According to Shardé Carrington, she received an email from her son's teacher, explaining that the project would be a unique classroom activity that will involve slave ship captains and slaves during the voyage from the Atlantic Ocean to America.
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"In order to help students understand the psychological impact of slavery on Africans brought over to this country, all of us do a simulation activity in our classes that tries to recreate the voyage that slaves went on across the Atlantic Ocean, on their way to the new world," goes a portion of the email Carrington, an African-American herself, received from the teacher.
According to Carrington, she couldn't help but worry about her child's participation in the said school project as such may lead to her son's developing trauma at a cellular level, which many other parents agreed to after sharing the said email on Facebook. Reportedly, Carrington had told the school that her son would not be participating.
"In a world where trigger warnings are becoming commonplace, to send an unwitting child to school to participate in a cruel activity such as this is just wrong for anyone," Harrington said in an interview.
Despite parents' complaints, the project still pushed through last week as it has been learned that Whitney High School had been practicing the said project for the past 10 years.
Nonetheless, earlier this week, Whitney High School announced that it would discontinue the history reenactment project, to which was agreed upon by some of its staff members who believe that there is a better way to teach that aspect of history to young children.
