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NY Teacher Encourages Students to Caption Photos of Enslaved People with "Something Funny"

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Sep 25, 2019
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A New York middle school teacher is under investigation after asking students to “write something funny” about pictures of slavery for a class assignment.

On September 20, Darlene McCurty wrote on Facebook that her granddaughter, an eighth grader at John W. Dodd Middle School in Freeport, New York, was instructed by her social studies teacher to write “f…

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