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Black parent sues after Los Angeles school project had students pick cotton
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:03 pm
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:03 pm
How did this damage the child?
the guardian
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Los Angeles Unified, America’s second largest school district, is facing a civil rights lawsuit from a Black parent who says her daughter’s school taught students about slavery by having them pick cotton.
Rashunda Pitts sued the school district and staff members at Laurel Span school in response to the incident that, according to the lawsuit, humiliated her daughter and left the now 14-year-old with extreme emotional distress and anxiety.
The incident occurred in October 2017, according to the lawsuit, when Pitts spotted a cotton field at her daughter’s Hollywood school. She contacted school officials who informed her that her daughter’s class was reading the autobiography of Frederick Douglass and that the field had been planted to give the students “‘real life experience’ of what it was like to be a slave by ‘picking cotton’”, the lawsuit says.
After Pitts shared her concerns that the project was “culturally insensitive”, school officials agreed, according to the suit. School leaders said they would remove the field but that they couldn’t do so within 24 hours as Pitts had requested, and that they would aim to by the end of the week or the following.
the guardian
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:06 pm to L.A.
frick these people. I picked cotton growing up many times.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:07 pm to L.A.
I wonder if any of her clothes are made of cotton? Ol gal must lose her mind getting dressed.
This post was edited on 8/18/22 at 10:08 pm
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:08 pm to L.A.
Maybe they should have had the child singing “Jimmy Crack Rock” instead.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:08 pm to L.A.
quote:
according to the lawsuit, humiliated her daughter and left the now 14-year-old with extreme emotional distress and anxiety.
Pure BS.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:09 pm to Chingon Ag
Or open a medicine bottle such as Advil, many of which come with a cotton ball in the top.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:11 pm to L.A.
She will never see white the same
Unless it's a real perty dress.
Unless it's a real perty dress.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:16 pm to L.A.
Lots of people pick cotton.
Whites, blacks, Hispanics, etc
These students are no more special than anyone else.
Whites, blacks, Hispanics, etc
These students are no more special than anyone else.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:19 pm to L.A.
“Most racist field trip I have ever been on”
I swear this story was an absolute joke 10 years ago
I swear this story was an absolute joke 10 years ago
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:36 pm to L.A.
quote:
Frederick Douglass
Would 100% NOT be a democrat.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:43 pm to L.A.
I’m just having a hard time believing a school cotton patch even made it far enough along to get to the picking phase given how well run most everything else in public education is run. Albeit this is in California not the South and the growing conditions, insect pressure, etc. are different but there’s a saying that goes with growing cotton- “The only thing a cotton plant is doing in that first forty days is trying to die.”
This post was edited on 8/18/22 at 10:47 pm
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:47 pm to Aubie Spr96
quote:frick you
I picked cotton growing up many times
I should have picked it myself
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:50 pm to L.A.
quote:Bull.shite.
humiliated her daughter and left the now 14-year-old with extreme emotional distress and anxiety.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:53 pm to L.A.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:23 pm to L.A.
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October 2017...left the now 14-year-old with extreme emotional distress and anxiety.
Yes. It was this incident that damaged a 9 year old. Hell, living in LA probably caused it.
I wonder what her dad had to say about it?
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:27 pm to L.A.
quote:"NOW WAIT JUST A COTTON PICKIN' MINUTE"
Pitts shared her concerns
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:40 pm to L.A.
I have no clue how prison politics work. But when I worked for Aramark, we would deliver to all prisons in the south.
They all had cotton fields for miles and miles. If she wins one cent, can the prisoners sue now for the same thing?
They all had cotton fields for miles and miles. If she wins one cent, can the prisoners sue now for the same thing?
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:47 pm to L.A.
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culturally insensitive
My white great grandparents were cotton pickers that had to move from Mississippi to Texas after the civil war bc the plantation owners paid the blacks a lot less
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