A Black woman has filed a civil rights suit on behalf of her daughter alleging the girl suffered emotional distress after a cotton picking field was set up at her Hollywood, Calif. school in 2017 as an instructional tool about what life was like for slaves
Pitts eventually talked to Assistant Principal Brian Wisniewski, who"enthusiastically informed her that the children in S.W.'s class were reading the autobiography of Frederick Douglass and that picking cotton was one of the experiences that he wrote about in the autobiography," the suit states.
"Completely incensed with the idea that the school would have her daughter and other children pick cotton as a school exercise to identify with the real-life experience of African-American slaves, Ms. Pitts expressed her disappointment and hurt in regards to the culturally insensitive and incompetent project,'' according to the suit.
S.W. had a perfect grade-point average and was initially reluctant to discuss the project for fear of retaliation from teachers, the suit states. The LAUSD later released a statement stating it regretted that an"instructional activity" at Laurel Span School was construed as culturally insensitive, according to the suit.
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