Black teacher suspended for persuasive essay assignment: Defend the KKK
Dave Huber - Assistant Editor •December 20, 2016
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An African-American teacher at a predominantly black charter school in Milwaukee has been suspended for giving her 7th grade class a persuasive writing assignment on … defending the Ku Klux Klan.
According to the Daily Mail, the class had finished watching the film “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the subsequent assignment was to write the essay from “the vantage point of a lawyer defending KKK members on trial.”
“The goal of this paper is not to teach students the Klan was correct in its behavior, but rather to teach the students how to write persuasively,” a handout for the lesson read.
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