A 13-Year-Old’s Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths - TopicsExpress



          

A 13-Year-Old’s Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School owl.li/sXbWR In a bold comparative analysis of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Jada Williams, a 13-year old eighth grader at School #3 in Rochester, New York, asserted that in her experience, today’s education system is a modern-day version of slavery. According to the Fredrick Douglass Foundation of New York, the schools’ teachers and administrators were so offended by Williams’ essay that they began a campaign of harassment—kicking her out of class and trying to suspend her—that ultimately forced her parents to withdraw her from the school.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:25:52 +0000

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