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NY Teacher Allegedly Instructed Students To Pick Cotton, Wear Shackles In History Lesson

NY Teacher Allegedly Instructed Students To Pick Cotton, Wear Shackles In History Lesson

The School of the Arts has placed the tenured teacher on paid administrative leave pending further investigation. The seventh-grade social studies lesson was like any other, teaching students about the long history of slavery and how cotton was processed until Raush distastefully asked his students to pick cotton seeds. “He gave the whole class cotton, […]