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10-year-old examined, sold at mock slave auction

An Ohio elementary school missed the point of a teaching opportunity when it allowed 10-year-old students to feel each other and evaluate each other's worth in a mock slave auction.

According to a report from 10tv, the local television station, the American history class at a Gahanna, Ohio, elementary school was divided up in "masters" and "slaves" to illustrate the inequalities of slavery.

"The masters go to touch people and do all sorts of stuff," 10-year-old Nikko Burton told the television station. "They got to look in your mouth and feel your legs and stuff and see if you're strong and stuff."

Burton's mother complained to the school, who told her that the mock auction is part of the state-approved curriculum.

"He felt degraded, he was hurt and the kids picked on him later," she said.

But while the school has apologize, Nikko hopes for an apology from his teacher.

"It was kind of mean and she should have said sorry." even if she did say sorry. she wouldn't mean it.

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http://www.torontosun.com/news/world.../17514531.html

every day some crazy story popsup

as the teeth go, so goes the bone.

Sounds like that kid and his mother both completely missed the point of it.

the point for them was to find something to complain about.

His mother is going to wreck his education if she whines every time he is to thick to understand what's going on.

this is an important issue for toronto!

Pffft. Come over to my side of the world where they actually sell kids to be labor and/or sex slaves.

For the life of me I don't know how this sort of thing continues in todays world.

What kind of stupid fucked up shit is this?

I loved this:

Anyone who has kids knows that kids pick on kids daily. Constantly. They don't need a reason, and if they do, they'll make one up.

At the end of the day, it seems the kids learned something:

Outstanding. The kids learned first hand that slaves were picked based on certain qualities, mostly strength.

Kids learning by doing, not reading about what happened in a book. When I was about that age, we learned about the liberty bell by making one, not reading about it in a book.

So long as the kids walk away learning about what happened in one of the darkest moments of American History - and learning that it was wrong and that people can't own people - it's all good.

oh, nooooooo! that's brutal

the poor brats

i understand the Civil War Reenactment these people are adults. but why drag someone's children into this? without permission from the parents?? on top of that all the black children had to be slaves.

oh please!! people have so many issues nowadays. Get over it, get on with life

be honest did that dog at taco bell piss you off. :helpme :1orglaugh that shit lit a big hispanic fire and they pulled him from ads.

cool..so now some of those kids will know how to pick slaves

what was the point of this exercise exactly?

none they could have put on roots on dvd. instead she divided the class into blacks and whites.

why did this never hasppen im my school?

i'd check on some slave girls vags

oh yes i would

any of you homos touch my shit and i'll kill you.

not in compton. :2 cents:

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could you imagine if she did that?

damn

i guess a reenactment of the Reginald Denny video would be ok. the man slammed with a brick during the rodney king riot. :helpme :Oh crap the black kids would use a sponge made to look like a brick.