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Mock Slave Auctions 'Profoundly' Traumatize Students, State Investigation Finds

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Jun 02, 2019
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A private school in Bronxville, New York held mock slave auctions in several fifth grade classrooms that “had a profoundly negative effect” on children, a state investigation revealed. A teacher at The Chapel School was fired after having white students bid on Black classmates during a March 5 incident.

On May 29, New York Attorney General Letitia James …

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