WCCB Charlotte s CW
March 13, 2021
WAXHAW, N.C. Some parents in Union County are outraged over a controversial assignment at a local elementary school. Many of them are calling for the firing of Union County teachers involved in a research project about slavery.
That assignment was given to 4th graders at Waxhaw Elementary School. The Union County School District described the assignment this way.
“As part of a research project about North Carolinians, the assignment was intended to help students analyze events from the Pre-Colonial period to Reconstruction through the perspective of a key historical figure.”
In other words, 4th graders were told to write tweets from the perspective of someone from the Civil War Era.