Mushmouth
02-03-2018, 11:09 AM
THE BRONX, NY — A white teacher at a Bronx middle school horrified a class when she stepped on black students' backs during a lesson about slavery, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
During multiple seventh-grade social studies lessons at Middle School 118 about two weeks ago, Patricia Cummings told black students to lie on the floor to illustrate the Middle Passage, the overseas route that transported kidnapped slaves from Africa to America, two students told the Daily News.
Cummings reportedly asked the students, "You see how it was to be a slave?" When one girl on the floor jokingly said she felt fine, Cummings stepped on her back and said "How does it feel? See how it feels to be a slave?"
https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/bronx-teacher-steps-students-backs-slavery-lesson-report
During multiple seventh-grade social studies lessons at Middle School 118 about two weeks ago, Patricia Cummings told black students to lie on the floor to illustrate the Middle Passage, the overseas route that transported kidnapped slaves from Africa to America, two students told the Daily News.
Cummings reportedly asked the students, "You see how it was to be a slave?" When one girl on the floor jokingly said she felt fine, Cummings stepped on her back and said "How does it feel? See how it feels to be a slave?"
https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/bronx-teacher-steps-students-backs-slavery-lesson-report