Student "sold" in mock slave auction at school in NJ

A New Jersey school district is under fire for the second time this month after a substitute teacher allowed fifth-graders to “sell” a fellow student during a mock slave auction that was filmed. 
The incident was reported at Jefferson Elementary School in the South Orange Maplewood School District, the same district in which students studying colonial America this month at another school drew slave auction posters and hung them in the school’s hallways. The website said the activity was not part of the curriculum in the South Orange-Maplewood School District.“There was a sale of a black child by white children in the classroom,” Tracey Jarmon-Woods, parent of a student in another class at the school, told CBS New York. “If you’re demoralized — sold on a block in 2017 — it may affect you the rest of your life.”
“I’m disgusted, really disgusted a child was bought,” another parent, who was not named, told the station. “That doesn’t make any sense.”
The classroom’s regular teacher found out about the mock auction, which had been videotaped, after returning and sent a letter home to parents. 
The teacher, who has not been named, said the incident would be used as a “teachable moment to elaborate on the gravity of this part in our history,” according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Maplewoodian website.The school district sent a statement to the website saying it did not condone the activity. It blamed the substitute and said it would “look again at training and improved supervisory protocols for substitutes.” Via huff post 

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