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Students At Hudson Valley Middle School Asked To Create 'Runaway Slave' Ad Students At Hudson Valley Middle School Asked To Create 'Runaway Slave' Ad
Students At Hudson Valley Middle School Asked To Create 'Runaway Slave' Ad Parents and school administrators at a middle school in Westchester were caught off guard by a recently distributed extra credit assignment that invoked 19th Century slavery. A photo of an assignment given to students at the Port Chester Middle School, in which they would have to create a “runaway slave ad” has gone viral on Facebook, and has drawn the ire of local parents and school administrators. According to school officials, the assignment was related to a unit of curriculum on American slavery that asked students to create the advertisement.  The ad was intended to mimic original 19t…

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by Zak Failla