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Long Island Teacher Allegedly Told Students To Write 'Funny' Captions For Photos Of Slaves Long Island Teacher Allegedly Told Students To Write 'Funny' Captions For Photos Of Slaves
Long Island Teacher Allegedly Told Students To Write 'Funny' Captions For Photos Of Slaves A middle school teacher on Long Island is in hot water after reportedly asking students to “write something funny” about pictures of slavery during an assignment at the John W. Dodd Middle School in Freeport. The grandmother of an eighth-grade student at the middle school uploaded images of the assignment onto social media after students were instructed to write “funny” titles and captions for photos of slaves in cotton fields. Some of the captions on the worksheets included things such as “Us black people need to get out,” or “black girls work hard or play hard.” “My granddaughter who is…

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by Zak Failla