{"id":348257,"date":"2018-02-14T21:26:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T20:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/draw-yourself-as-a-slave\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T21:26:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T20:26:46","slug":"draw-yourself-as-a-slave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/draw-yourself-as-a-slave\/","title":{"rendered":"Draw yourself as a slave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/state\/texas\/article199757294.html\"><strong>Fort Worth Star Telegram<\/strong><\/a><br \/>February 14, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>A mother near Austin was outraged by her 12-year-old daughter\u2019s homework assignment: Draw yourself as a slave, then color and write a visualization of what you see around you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvue.com\/news\/local\/leander-isd-middle-school-assignment-instructs-students-to-draw-picture-of-themselves-as-slaves\/517126300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Austin TV station reported<\/a> the incident on Saturday and spoke with the girl\u2019s mother, identified as Tonya Jennings. She told the station that she was shocked when her daughter pulled the single-page assignment out of her backpack at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing about slavery that I would want any child, regardless of color, to have to relive,\u201d said Jennings.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-year-old reportedly attends Four Points Middle School, part of the Leander school district near Austin. The assignment was part of a Texas history lesson regarding the Civil War and the role slavery played in the war, according to the Leander ISD.<\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2018  at  10:01 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/homework-assignment-for-a-texas-girl-draw-yourself-as-a-slave.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/homework-assignment-for-a-texas-girl-draw-yourself-as-a-slave.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth Star TelegramFebruary 14, 2018 A mother near Austin was outraged by her 12-year-old daughter\u2019s homework assignment: Draw yourself as a slave, then color and write a visualization of what you see around you. An Austin TV station reported the incident on Saturday and spoke with the girl\u2019s mother, identified as Tonya Jennings. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}