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Local News NAACP of Dane County demands audit of Sun Prairie Area School District after racially insensitive assignment about slavery February 27, 2021 8:03 PM Stephen Cohn SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. — The NAACP of Dane County is demanding the Department of Public Instruction conduct a compliance audit of the Sun Prairie Area School District in the wake of a racially insensitive homework assignment about slavery. According to a news release Saturday from the NAACP, the assignment raised three main questions and issues: it demonstrated “the lack of oversight on matters of r...

It's been one week since multiple Patrick Marsh Middle School sixth-grade classes were presented with an assignment that the district has called "a grave error in judgement."

Wisc. Teachers Placed on Leave After Assignment That Asked Students to ‘Punish’ Enslaved People People 2/5/2021 © Provided by People Google Maps Patrick Marsh MIddle School Multiple teachers at a Wisconsin middle school have been placed under administrative leave following a racially insensitive social studies assignment that the district has since called a "grave error in judgment." Sixth graders at Patrick Marsh Middle School in Sun Prairie were shocked on Monday when they received an assignment about the Code of Hammurabi, a legal set of punishments and fines in ancient Mesopotami...

EMILY HAMER Two days after a Sun Prairie middle school faced backlash for an activity that asked sixth-grade students how they would punish a slave, the district isn’t answering questions on where the lesson came from and why it was taught. The Sun Prairie School District on Monday issued an apology, put the group of Patrick Marsh Middle School teachers responsible for the lesson on leave and launched an investigation into the incident, but has been largely quiet since. District spokesperson Patricia Lux said in an email Wednesday that there has been “in-person support w...

Wisconsin teachers are suspended over history question asking students how they would 'punish' slaves The assignment was given to sixth graders at Patrick Marsh Middle School in Sun Prairie as part of a lesson on the laws of ancient Mesopotamia The school apologised and said the lesson was not part of district curriculum   The group of teachers involved have been suspending while an investigation into the assignment is carried out