A teacher at a Cobb County School will be facing disciplinary action for using a slavery game to “educate” in a class with only one black student.

The game used a roll of the dice to send students back to the plantation or have them escape to the woods.

The only African-American student came home concerned and her grandmother quizzed her, finding out about the game. She was not happy and complained.

Delores Bunch-Keemer’s 10-year old granddaughter was the student’s grandmother. She spoke with WSB-TV Atlanta 2 and said:

“She said she went back to the plantation six times, so that consistent feeling of being degraded, and I have to be beaten when I got back to the plantation,”

And

“If we did a Holocaust game, and people had to roll the dice if they were going to go in the gas chamber, do you see any similarity in that, and she didn’t, that it was wrong,”

The school have said they were unaware of the activity and have put a stop to it and will discipline the teacher.

Personally, I can see the teacher was trying to make a point, get it into the heads of the kids that things were real and bad, trying to place them in that time.

However, personally I also think this approach was not correct and the teacher needs some sensitivity training and also that maybe she should be consulting with African American members of the community and maybe having them come in and help with lessons on slavery.

What do you think?

More info: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/parents-say-school-slavery-game-is-demeaning/430369374