A school in the US state of New Jersey is under fire for an assignment that asked children aged 10-11 to create posters depicting slave auctions. Some parents reacted angrily when they attended the school and saw the posters hanging in a hallway. District officials said children needed to learn about the "uglier parts of our past", but accepted the posters should not have been hung without context. The assignment had been set by the South Mountain Elementary School in South Orange, near Newark. School principal Alyna Jacobs apologised for "any unintended pain, anger or offence caused by the assignment".

Source: The Star March 11, 2017 12:00 UTC