Virginia elementary school made black pupil act as slave during classroom game

Published February 22, 2019 10:18pm ET



A Virginia elementary school staged a “runaway slave game” to mark Black History Month.

During a physical education class, children from third to fifth grades — including at least one African-American boy — had to pretend to be groups of runaway slaves as they worked their way through an obstacle course representing the Underground Railroad, according to the Loudoun Times-Mirror.

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