New Jersey Students Told To Create 'Catchy' Plantation, Illustrating Why Slave Labor Is Good

New Jersey Students Told To Create 'Catchy' Plantation, Illustrating Why Slave Labor Is Good

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Two local middle school teachers are in hot water after assigning students a controversial project on slavery that's angered parents.

Over 100 sixth graders at Grover Cleveland Middle School in Caldwell spent several days last week taking part in an assignment where they used terms like "build a plantation" while completing their "Lap of Luxury" social studies project.

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It is bad when tachers can get away with stuff like this, but even worse when the principal was unaware that this had been going on for two years.

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[edit on 10/2/2007 by shots]